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NAME
docker-image-save - Save one or more images to a tar archive (streamed
to STDOUT by default)
SYNOPSIS
docker image save [OPTIONS] IMAGE [IMAGE...]
DESCRIPTION
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.
EXAMPLES
Save all fedora repository images to a fedora-all.tar and save the lat-
est 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
See also
docker-image-load(1) to load an image from a tar archive on STDIN.
OPTIONS
-o, --output="" Write to a file, instead of STDOUT
--platform=[] Save only the given platform(s). Formatted as a
comma-separated list of "os[/arch[/variant]]" (e.g.,
"linux/amd64,linux/arm64/v8")
SEE ALSO
docker-image(1)
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