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skopeo/docs/buildah-export.md
Daniel J Walsh a49a32f55f Add buildah export support
Will export the contents of a container as a tar ball.

Signed-off-by: Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>

Closes: #170
Approved by: rhatdan
2017-06-28 20:06:42 +00:00

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% BUILDAH(1) Buildah User Manuals % Buildah Community % JUNE 2017

NAME

buildah-export - Export container's filesystem content as a tar archive

SYNOPSIS

buildah export [--help] [-o|--output[=""]] CONTAINER

DESCRIPTION

buildah export exports the full or shortened container ID or container name to STDOUT and should be redirected to a tar file.

OPTIONS

--help Print usage statement

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

EXAMPLES

Export the contents of the container called angry_bell to a tar file called angry_bell.tar:

# buildah export angry_bell > angry_bell.tar
# buildah export --output=angry_bell-latest.tar angry_bell
# ls -sh angry_bell.tar
321M angry_bell.tar
# ls -sh angry_bell-latest.tar
321M angry_bell-latest.tar

See also

buildah-import(1) to create an empty filesystem image and import the contents of the tarball into it, then optionally tag it.

HISTORY

July 2017, Originally copied from docker project docker-export.1.md