How to export / dump a MySql table into a text file including the field names (aka headers or column names)

Question

In MySql\'s interpreter, it\'s very easy to dump a table to the screen along with its field names.

There seems to be no simple way to export a table to a tab-delimt

Answer 1

I used the above command and modified according to my requirement.
I needed to get passwords column from the wordpress mysql database in a text file , to do that i used the following below command

echo "select user_pass from wp_users"| mysql -uroot -proot wp_database > passwordList.txt