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

You can remove the INSERT INTO ... part:

mysqldump \
  --opt \
  -u ${DB_USER} -p${DB_PASS} \
  ${DB_NAME} \
  | grep -v 'INSERT INTO `table3`' \
  | grep -v 'INSERT INTO `table4`'