mysqldump entire structure but only data from selected tables in a single command

Question

My database has 3 tables: table1, table2 and table3

I would like to do a mysqldump on this database with the following conditions:

• Dump structure for all t

Answer 1

Given you may want to pipe the output to another command, as I did, instead of just redirecting to a file and appending to that file in the next command, you could try (modified from the example of stask):

(mysqldump -u $1 -p$2 -d db && mysqldump -u $1 -p$2 db --ignore-table=db.table3) |\
your_command

... in my case:

(mysqldump -u $1 -p$2 -d db && mysqldump -u $1 -p$2 db --ignore-table=db.table3) |\
gzip -9 > filename.sql.gz

Enclosing the two mysqldump commands in parentheses creates a subshell whose output we pipe into gzip and then redirect that into a file.

PS: I've also been unable to combine it into one single mysqldump invocation, though.