I've re-jigged the run man page so that each option's text begins with the cli's help text for that flag, and then ay subsequent lines in the man page are carried forward. Signed-off-by: Sven Dowideit <SvenDowideit@home.org.au> Docker-DCO-1.1-Signed-off-by: Sven Dowideit <SvenDowideit@home.org.au> (github: SvenDowideit)
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% DOCKER(1) Docker User Manuals % Docker Community % JUNE 2014
NAME
docker-commit - Create a new image from a container's changes
SYNOPSIS
docker commit [-a|--author[=AUTHOR]] [-m|--message[=MESSAGE]] [-p|--pause[=true]] CONTAINER [REPOSITORY[:TAG]]
DESCRIPTION
Using an existing container's name or ID you can create a new image.
OPTIONS
-a, --author="" Author (e.g., "John Hannibal Smith hannibal@a-team.com")
-m, --message="" Commit message
-p, --pause=true|false Pause container during commit. The default is true.
EXAMPLES
Creating a new image from an existing container
An existing Fedora based container has had Apache installed while running in interactive mode with the bash shell. Apache is also running. To create a new image run docker ps to find the container's ID and then run:
# docker commit -m="Added Apache to Fedora base image" \
-a="A D Ministrator" 98bd7fc99854 fedora/fedora_httpd:20
HISTORY
April 2014, Originally compiled by William Henry (whenry at redhat dot com) based on docker.com source material and in June 2014, updated by Sven Dowideit SvenDowideit@home.org.au July 2014, updated by Sven Dowideit SvenDowideit@home.org.au