How can I mysqldump the contents of a few tables or just the schema?

Can you help me with the following:

• dump from the database just the con开发者_开发百科tents of a few tables?
• dump just the schema?

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mysqldump -u username -p database [table] > file.sql

Use the --no-data option to dump just the schema.

mysqldump --no-data ...