mysqldump Error 1045 Access denied despite correct passwords etc

Question

This is a tricky one, I have the following output:

mysqldump: Got error: 1045: Access denied for user \'root\'@\'localhost\' (using password: YES) when tr

Answer 1

I was having the same issue, for 30min! I found that I was using _p instead of -p, the terminal font confused me!