Ubuntu Manpage: buildah-copy - Copies the contents of a file, URL, or directory into a container's working directory.

NAME

       buildah-copy - Copies the contents of a file, URL, or directory into a container's working directory.

SYNOPSIS

       buildah copy container src [[src ...] dest]

DESCRIPTION

       Copies  the  contents  of  a  file, URL, or a directory to a container's working directory or a specified
       location in the container.  If a local directory is specified as a source, its contents are copied to the
       destination.

OPTIONS

       --add-history

       Add an entry to the history which will note the digest of the added content.  Defaults to false.

       Note: You can also override the default value of --add-history by setting the BUILDAH_HISTORY environment
       variable. export BUILDAH_HISTORY=true

       --chmod permissions

       Sets the access permissions of the destination content. Accepts the numerical format.

       --chown owner:group

       Sets the user and group ownership of the destination content.

       --contextdir directory

       Build context directory. Specifying a context directory causes Buildah  to  chroot  into  a  the  context
       directory. This means copying files pointed at by symbolic links outside of the chroot will fail.

       --from containerOrImage

       Use  the  root directory of the specified working container or image as the root directory when resolving
       absolute source paths and the path of the context directory.  If an image needs  to  be  pulled,  options
       recognized by buildah pull can be used.

       --ignorefile file

       Path to an alternative .containerignore (.dockerignore) file. Requires --contextdir be specified.

       --quiet, -q

       Refrain from printing a digest of the copied content.

EXAMPLE

       buildah copy containerID '/myapp/app.conf' '/myapp/app.conf'

       buildah copy --chown myuser:mygroup containerID '/myapp/app.conf' '/myapp/app.conf'

       buildah copy --chmod 660 containerID '/myapp/app.conf' '/myapp/app.conf'

       buildah copy containerID '/home/myuser/myproject.go'

       buildah copy containerID '/home/myuser/myfiles.tar' '/tmp'

       buildah copy containerID '/tmp/workingdir' '/tmp/workingdir'

       buildah copy containerID 'https://github.com/containers/buildah' '/tmp'

       buildah copy containerID 'passwd' 'certs.d' /etc

FILES

.containerignore/.dockerignore
If the .containerignore/.dockerignore file exists in the context directory, buildah copy reads its
contents. If both exist, then .containerignore is used.

When the \fB\fC--ignorefile\fR option is specified Buildah reads it and uses it to decide which content
to exclude when copying content into the working container.

Users can specify a series of Unix shell glob patterns in an ignore file to identify files/directories to
exclude.

Buildah supports a special wildcard string ** which matches any number of directories (including zero).
For example, */.go will exclude all files that end with .go that are found in all directories.

Example .containerignore/.dockerignore file:

# here are files we want to exclude
*/*.c
**/output*
src

*/*.c Excludes files and directories whose names ends with .c in any top level subdirectory. For example,
the source file include/rootless.c.

**/output* Excludes files and directories starting with output from any directory.

src Excludes files named src and the directory src as well as any content in it.

Lines starting with ! (exclamation mark) can be used to make exceptions to exclusions. The following is
an example .containerignore/.dockerignore file that uses this mechanism:

*.doc
!Help.doc

Exclude all doc files except Help.doc when copying content into the container.

This functionality is compatible with the handling of .dockerignore files described here: