How to pass in password to pg_dump?

Question

I\'m trying to create a cronjob to back up my database every night before something catastrophic happens. It looks like this command should meet my needs:

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Answer 1

$ PGPASSWORD="mypass" pg_dump -i -h localhost -p 5432 -U username -F c -b -v -f dumpfilename.dump databasename