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

It's actually pretty simple, use --where clauses on the tables where you don't want data and give it an always false condition. For instance, load data on foo and gah and only schema on bar:

mysqldump -u ... -p... myDatabase foo bar --where='1=2' gah > myfile.sql

So YES you can do this on one line.