Backing Up Views with Mysql Dump

Question

I want to back up only the Views with mysqldump.

Is this possible?

If so, how?

Answer 1

I modified Andomar's excellent answer to allow the database (and other settings) to only be specified once:

#!/bin/bash -e
mysql --skip-column-names --batch -e \
"select table_name from information_schema.views \
 where table_schema = database()" $* |
xargs --max-args 1 mysqldump $*

I save this as mysql-dump-views.sh and call it via:

$ mysql-dump-views.sh -u user -ppassword databasename >dumpfile.sql