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# [NAME](#NAME)

docker-image-save - Save one or more images to a tar archive (streamed to STDOUT by default)

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

**docker image save \[OPTIONS] IMAGE \[IMAGE...]**

# [DESCRIPTION](#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](#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](#See_also)

[**docker-image-load(1)**](/man/enterprise-packages/docker-cli-fips/docker-image-load.1) to load an image from a tar archive on STDIN.

# [OPTIONS](#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](#SEE_ALSO)

[**docker-image(1)**](/man/enterprise-packages/docker-cli-fips/docker-image.1)

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Document: docker-image-save(1) from docker-cli-fips 29.9.0-r0 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://github.com/docker/cli