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

I don't think you can do it in one command. But you definitely can merge the output to one file. Why not to wrap it in some shell script that does following:

mysqldump -u $1 -p$2 -d db > dump.sql && mysqldump -u $1 -p$2 db --ignore-table=db.table3 >> dump.sql

You will run this script with two parameters: username and password.