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docker-image-save - Save one or more images to a tar archive (streamed to STDOUT by default)

docker image save [OPTIONS] IMAGE [IMAGE...]

Produces a tarred repository to the standard output stream. Contains all parent layers, and all tags + versions, or specified repo:tag.

Stream to a file instead of STDOUT by using -o.

Save all fedora repository images to a fedora-all.tar and save the latest fedora image to a fedora-latest.tar:

$ docker image save fedora > fedora-all.tar
$ docker image save --output=fedora-latest.tar fedora:latest
$ ls -sh fedora-all.tar
721M fedora-all.tar
$ ls -sh fedora-latest.tar
367M fedora-latest.tar

docker-image-load(1) to load an image from a tar archive on STDIN.

-h, --help[=false] help for save

-o, --output="" Write to a file, instead of STDOUT

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