Create table if not exists from mysqldump

Question

I\'m wondering if there is any way in mysqldump to add the appropriate create table option [IF NOT EXISTS]. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Not what you might want, but with --add-drop-table every CREATE is prefixed with the according DROP TABLE statement.

Otherwise, I'd go for a simple search/replace (e.g., with sed).

Answer 2

create a bash script with this... make sure you make it executable. (chmod 0777 dump.sh)

dump.sh

#!/bin/bash

name=$HOSTNAME
name+="-"
name+=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d.%H:%M")
name+=".sql"
echo $name;
mysqldump --replace --skip-add-drop-table --skip-comments izon -p > "$name"
sed -i 's/CREATE TABLE/CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS/g' "$name"