mysql dump - exclude some table data

Question

Is it possible, using mysql dump to export the entire database structure, but exclude certain tables data from export.

Say the database has 200 tables, I wish to export

Answer 1

To further improve on kantholy's answer, adding compression and removing most of the disk writes by not writing uncompressed data:

#!/bin/bash
echo -n "db name:"
read -r db_name
echo -n "username:"
read -r username
echo -n "Exclude data from table:"
read -r exclude_table_data

{
 mysqldump "$db_name" --user="$username" --password --no-tablespaces --no-data \
 && \
 mysqldump "$db_name" --user="$username" --password --no-tablespaces --no-create-info \
 --ignore-table="${db_name}.${exclude_table_data}";
} \
| bzip2 -c9 \
> "${db_name}_$(date +%y%m%d_%H%M).sql.bz2"