dump all mysql tables into separate files automagically?

Question

I\'d like to get dumps of each mysql table into separate files. The manual indicates that the syntax for this is

mysqldump [options] db_name [tbl_name ...]
         


        

Answer 1

The mysqldump command line program does this for you - although the docs are very unclear about this.

One thing to note is that ~/output/dir has to be writable by the user that owns mysqld. On Mac OS X:

sudo chown -R _mysqld:_mysqld ~/output/dir
mysqldump --user=dbuser --password --tab=~/output/dir dbname

After running the above, you will have one tablename.sql file containing each table's schema (create table statement) and tablename.txt file containing the data.

If you want a dump with schema only, add the --no-data flag:

mysqldump --user=dbuser --password --no-data --tab=~/output/dir dbname