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Docker-DCO-1.1-Signed-off-by: Andrew Page <admwiggin@gmail.com> (github: tianon) Upstream-commit: f763075c74aeb8a829cb310164f36015fb4bc806 Component: engine
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% DOCKER(1) Docker User Manuals % William Henry % APRIL 2014
NAME
docker-import - Create an empty filesystem image and import the contents of the tarball into it.
SYNOPSIS
docker import URL|- [REPOSITORY[:TAG]]
DESCRIPTION
Create a new filesystem image from the contents of a tarball (.tar, .tar.gz, .tgz, .bzip, .tar.xz, .txz) into it, then optionally tag it.
EXAMPLES
Import from a remote location
# docker import http://example.com/exampleimage.tgz example/imagerepo
Import from a local file
Import to docker via pipe and stdin:
# cat exampleimage.tgz | docker import - example/imagelocal
Import from a local file and tag
Import to docker via pipe and stdin:
# cat exampleimageV2.tgz | docker import - example/imagelocal:V-2.0
Import from a local directory
# tar -c . | docker import - exampleimagedir
HISTORY
April 2014, Originally compiled by William Henry (whenry at redhat dot com) based on docker.io source material and internal work.