Docker Dockerfile COPY vs ADD
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If
<src>
is a URL and<dest>
does not end with a trailing slash, then a file is downloaded from the URL and copied to<dest>
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If
<src>
is a URL and<dest>
does end with a trailing slash, then the filename is inferred from the URL and the file is downloaded to<dest>/<filename>
. For instance,ADD http://example.com/foobar /
would create the file/foobar
. The URL must have a nontrivial path so that an appropriate filename can be discovered in this case (http://example.com
will not work).
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If
<src>
is a local tar archive in a recognized compression format (identity, gzip, bzip2 or xz) then it is unpacked as a directory. Resources from remote URLs are not decompressed. When a directory is copied or unpacked, it has the same behavior astar -x
: the result is the union of:- Whatever existed at the destination path and
- The contents of the source tree, with conflicts resolved in favor of "2." on a file-by-file basis.