# context export

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Export a context to a tar archive FILE or a tar stream on STDOUT.


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## Description

Exports a context to a file that can then be used with `docker context import`.

The default output filename is `<CONTEXT>.dockercontext`. To export to `STDOUT`, 
use `-` as filename, for example:

```console
$ docker context export my-context -
```