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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
       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



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 variant. Formatted as
       "os[/arch[/variant]]" (e.g., "linux/amd64")



SEE ALSO
       docker-image(1)

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