diff --git a/api/client.go b/api/client.go
index 343a24078c..5a69700704 100644
--- a/api/client.go
+++ b/api/client.go
@@ -2043,7 +2043,7 @@ func (cli *DockerCli) CmdCp(args ...string) error {
 }
 
 func (cli *DockerCli) CmdSave(args ...string) error {
-	cmd := cli.Subcmd("save", "IMAGE", "Save an image to a tar archive (streamed to stdout)")
+	cmd := cli.Subcmd("save", "IMAGE", "Save an image to a tar archive (streamed to stdout by default)")
 	outfile := cmd.String([]string{"o", "-output"}, "", "Write to an file, instead of STDOUT")
 
 	if err := cmd.Parse(args); err != nil {
diff --git a/docs/sources/reference/commandline/cli.rst b/docs/sources/reference/commandline/cli.rst
index 0f33b05ec4..294e1d0544 100644
--- a/docs/sources/reference/commandline/cli.rst
+++ b/docs/sources/reference/commandline/cli.rst
@@ -1307,10 +1307,27 @@ This example shows 5 containers that might be set up to test a web application c
 
 ::
 
-    Usage: docker save image > repository.tar
+    Usage: docker save IMAGE
+
+    Save an image to a tar archive (streamed to stdout by default)
+
+      -o, --output="": Write to an file, instead of STDOUT
+
+
+Produces a tarred repository to the standard output stream.
+Contains all parent layers, and all tags + versions, or specified repo:tag.
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+   $ sudo docker save busybox > busybox.tar
+   $ ls -sh b.tar
+   2.7M b.tar
+   $ sudo docker save --output busybox.tar busybox
+   $ ls -sh b.tar
+   2.7M b.tar
+   $ sudo docker save -o fedora-all.tar fedora
+   $ sudo docker save -o fedora-latest.tar fedora:latest
 
-    Streams a tarred repository to the standard output stream.
-    Contains all parent layers, and all tags + versions.
 
 .. _cli_search: