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Dan Walsh a2b529ead2 --help option and help command should print to stdout not stderr
--help and help are successful commands so output should not go to error.

    QE teams have requested this change, also users doing docker help | less
    or docker run --help | less would expect this to work.

    Usage statement should only be printed when the user asks for it.
    Errors should print error message and then suggest the docker COMMAND --help
    command to see usage information.

    The current behaviour causes the user to have to search for the error message
    and sometimes scrolls right off the screen.  For example a error on a
    "docker run" command is very difficult to diagnose.

    Finally erros should always exit with a non 0 exit code, if the user
    makes a CLI error.

Docker-DCO-1.1-Signed-off-by: Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com> (github: rhatdan)
2015-01-06 13:40:14 +01:00

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% DOCKER(1) Docker User Manuals
% Docker Community
% JUNE 2014
# NAME
docker-import - Create an empty filesystem image and import the contents of the tarball (.tar, .tar.gz, .tgz, .bzip, .tar.xz, .txz) into it, then optionally tag it.
# SYNOPSIS
**docker import**
[**--help**]
URL|- [REPOSITORY[:TAG]]
# DESCRIPTION
Create a new filesystem image from the contents of a tarball (`.tar`,
`.tar.gz`, `.tgz`, `.bzip`, `.tar.xz`, `.txz`) into it, then optionally tag it.
# OPTIONS
**--help**
Print usage statement
# EXAMPLES
## Import from a remote location
# docker import http://example.com/exampleimage.tgz example/imagerepo
## Import from a local file
Import to docker via pipe and stdin:
# cat exampleimage.tgz | docker import - example/imagelocal
## Import from a local file and tag
Import to docker via pipe and stdin:
# cat exampleimageV2.tgz | docker import - example/imagelocal:V-2.0
## Import from a local directory
# tar -c . | docker import - exampleimagedir
# HISTORY
April 2014, Originally compiled by William Henry (whenry at redhat dot com)
based on docker.com source material and internal work.
June 2014, updated by Sven Dowideit <SvenDowideit@home.org.au>