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

Backing up views over multiple databases can be done by just using information_schema:

mysql --skip-column-names --batch -e 'select CONCAT("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS ", TABLE_SCHEMA, ".", TABLE_NAME, "; CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW ", TABLE_SCHEMA, ".", TABLE_NAME, " AS ", VIEW_DEFINITION, "; ") table_name from information_schema.views'