MySQL import - How to ignore Drop table if exists line?

Question

I exported 2 identical databases(identical in terms of names and structures of tables) into two .sql files using mysqldump. I want to merge them into one file. However, both the

Answer 1

If you do not want to make dump once again and you are using Linux you can go with:

awk '!/^DROP TABLE IF EXISTS/{print}'  | mysql 

If you want to dump data once again you should pass --skip-add-drop-table to mysqldump utility.