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+% podman(1) podman-load - Simple tool to load an image from an archive to containers-storage
+% Urvashi Mohnani
+# podman-load "1" "July 2017" "podman"
+
+## NAME
+podman-load - Load an image from docker archive
+
+## SYNOPSIS
+**podman load**
+**NAME[:TAG|@DIGEST]**
+[**--input**|**-i**]
+[**--quiet**|**-q**]
+[**--help**|**-h**]
+
+## DESCRIPTION
+**podman load** copies an image from either **docker-archive** or **oci-archive** stored
+on the local machine. **podman load** reads from stdin by default or a file if the **input** flag is set.
+The **quiet** flag suppresses the output when set.
+
+**podman [GLOBAL OPTIONS]**
+
+**podman load [GLOBAL OPTIONS]**
+
+**podman load [OPTIONS] NAME[:TAG|@DIGEST]**
+
+## OPTIONS
+
+**--input, -i**
+Read from archive file, default is STDIN
+
+**--quiet, -q**
+Suppress the output
+
+**--signature-policy="PATHNAME"**
+
+Pathname of a signature policy file to use.  It is not recommended that this
+option be used, as the default behavior of using the system-wide default policy
+(frequently */etc/containers/policy.json*) is most often preferred
+
+## EXAMPLES
+
+```
+# podman load --quiet -i fedora.tar
+```
+
+```
+# podman load -q --signature-policy /etc/containers/policy.json -i fedora.tar
+```
+
+```
+# podman load < fedora.tar
+Getting image source signatures
+Copying blob sha256:5bef08742407efd622d243692b79ba0055383bbce12900324f75e56f589aedb0
+ 0 B / 4.03 MB [---------------------------------------------------------------]
+Copying config sha256:7328f6f8b41890597575cbaadc884e7386ae0acc53b747401ebce5cf0d624560
+ 0 B / 1.48 KB [---------------------------------------------------------------]
+Writing manifest to image destination
+Storing signatures
+Loaded image:  registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora:latest
+```
+
+```
+# cat fedora.tar | podman load
+Getting image source signatures
+Copying blob sha256:5bef08742407efd622d243692b79ba0055383bbce12900324f75e56f589aedb0
+ 0 B / 4.03 MB [---------------------------------------------------------------]
+Copying config sha256:7328f6f8b41890597575cbaadc884e7386ae0acc53b747401ebce5cf0d624560
+ 0 B / 1.48 KB [---------------------------------------------------------------]
+Writing manifest to image destination
+Storing signatures
+Loaded image:  registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora:latest
+```
+
+## SEE ALSO
+podman(1), podman-save(1), crio(8), crio.conf(5)
+
+## HISTORY
+July 2017, Originally compiled by Urvashi Mohnani <umohnani@redhat.com>