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# load
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Load an image from a tar archive or STDIN
### Aliases
`docker image load`, `docker load`
### Options
| Name | Type | Default | Description |
|:------------------------------------|:---------|:--------|:---------------------------------------------|
| [`-i`](#input), [`--input`](#input) | `string` | | Read from tar archive file, instead of STDIN |
| `-q`, `--quiet` | | | Suppress the load output |
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## Description
Load an image or repository from a tar archive (even if compressed with gzip,
bzip2, xz or zstd) from a file or STDIN. It restores both images and tags.
## Examples
```console
$ docker image ls
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
```
### Load images from STDIN
```console
$ docker load < busybox.tar.gz
Loaded image: busybox:latest
$ docker images
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
busybox latest 769b9341d937 7 weeks ago 2.489 MB
```
### <a name="input"></a> Load images from a file (--input)
```console
$ docker load --input fedora.tar
Loaded image: fedora:rawhide
Loaded image: fedora:20
$ docker images
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
busybox latest 769b9341d937 7 weeks ago 2.489 MB
fedora rawhide 0d20aec6529d 7 weeks ago 387 MB
fedora 20 58394af37342 7 weeks ago 385.5 MB
fedora heisenbug 58394af37342 7 weeks ago 385.5 MB
fedora latest 58394af37342 7 weeks ago 385.5 MB
```