How do I use mysqldump to export only the CREATE TABLE commands?

Question

I\'m trying to use mysqldump to export only the DB schema -- no data, no additional SQL comments, just the CREATE TABLE commands. Here\'s what I\'ve go

Answer 1

Here is the command to dump the schema without the character set and AUTO_INCREMENT.

mysqldump -h localhost -u root -p --no-data  YOUR_DATABASE_HERE |egrep -v "(^SET|^/\*\!)" | sed 's/ AUTO_INCREMENT=[0-9]*\b//'

Here is the command to dump the schema without the character set, AUTO_INCREMENT and the comments

mysqldump -h localhost -u root -p --no-data --compact YOUR_DATABASE_HERE |egrep -v "(^SET|^/\*\!)" | sed 's/ AUTO_INCREMENT=[0-9]*\b//'

Answer 2

Did you try the --skip-comments option mentioned in the manual? Does it help?

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysqldump.html#option_mysqldump_comments

Answer 3

Use --skip-set-charset option.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysqldump.html#option_mysqldump_set-charset

Answer 4

mysqldump --compact --no-set-names --skip-opt --no-data DB | sed "/ SET /d"

Answer 5

mysql> SHOW CREATE TABLE mytablename;

Answer 6

This uses grep as well, but it seems to work:

mysqldump -d --compact --compatible=mysql323 ${dbname}|egrep -v "(^SET|^/\*\!)"

I'm using:

Ver 10.11 Distrib 5.0.51a, for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64)