mysql dump - exclude some table data

Question

Is it possible, using mysql dump to export the entire database structure, but exclude certain tables data from export.

Say the database has 200 tables, I wish to export

Answer 1

I think that AmitP's solution is great already - to improve it even further, I think it makes sense to create all tables (structure) first and then fill it with data, except the ones "excluded"

mysqldump --no-data db_name > export.sql
mysqldump --no-create-info --ignore-table=db_name.table_name db_name >> export.sql

if you want to exclude more than 1 table, simply use the --ignore-tabledirective more often (in the 2nc command) - see mysqldump help:

--ignore-table=name   Do not dump the specified table. To specify more than one
                      table to ignore, use the directive multiple times, once
                      for each table.  Each table must be specified with both
                      database and table names, e.g.,
                     --ignore-table=database.table