singularity(1)

💖 singularity-data-package 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the singularity manual — this page lives in section 1 of the manual, and it's all about singularity-data-package, the lil command that scoops up your files and turns them into a data container. it's giving glow up for your filesystem, fr fr. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

singularity-data-package — packages a file or a directory into a data container 🎀

like. that's it. that's the whole job. and she does it flawlessly. 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

singularity data package

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so the data package command makes an OCI-SIF data container, no cap. 🫶

what does that even mean tho? it means it takes a file or a directory and packages it into a convenient format — one you can distribute right alongside your application container images, and then mount into a container at runtime. so your data and your app can be besties that travel together. iconic behaviour honestly. 👑

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -h, --help[=false] — shows help for package. that's the whole list. she's a minimal queen. 🎀

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🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

want a data container that packages everything inside mydir? say less:

$ singularity data package mydir data.oci.sif

want one that packages just a single file instead? also say less:

$ singularity data package mydir/myfile data.oci.sif

look at you go. main character energy. 🦋

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• singularity-data(1) — the parent command, go say hi 💜

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📜 HISTORY 📜

• 14-Sep-2026 — auto generated by spf13/cobra

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ngl the whole page was auto generated by spf13/cobra, so if the prose feels a little robotic under all my sparkle... yeah. that's why. 🙈

okay that's the whole vibe check, bestie — singularity-data-package from singularity, section 1, dated Sep 2026, auto generated by spf13/cobra. go package something cute. 💖✨🎀