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

@Josue Alexander Ibarra answer works on centos 7 and version 9.5 if --dbname is not passed.

pg_dump postgresql://username:password@127.0.0.1:5432/mydatabase