mysqldump puts CREATE on the first line with mysqldump

Question

Here's my full bash script:

#!/bin/bash

logs="$HOME/sitedb_backups/log"

mysql_user="user"
mysql_password="pass"

mysql=/usr/bin/mysql
mysqldump=/usr/bin/mysqldump

tbackups="$HOME/sitedb_backups/today"
ybackups="$HOME/sitedb_backups/yesterday"

echo "`date`" > $logs/backups.log

rm $ybackups/* >> $logs/backups.log
mv $tbackups/* $ybackups/ >> $logs/backups.log

databases=`$mysql --user=$mysql_user -p$mysql_password -e "SHOW DATABASES;" | grep -Ev "(Database|information_schema)"`

for db in $databases ; do
  $mysqldump --force --opt --user=$mysql_user -p$mysql_password --databases $db | gzip > "$tbackups/$db.gz"
  echo -e "\r\nBackup of $db successfull" >> $logs/backups.log
done

mail -s "Your DB backups is ready!" yourmail@gmail.com <<< "Today: "`date`"
DB backups of every site is ready."

exit 0

Problem is when i try to import it with mysql i am gettint error 1044 error connecting to oldname_db. When i opened sql file i have noticed on the first line CREATE command so it tries to create that database with the old name. How can i solve that problem?

SOLVED.

Using --databases parameter in my case is not necessary and because of --databases it was generating CREATE and USE action in the beginning of the sql file, hope it helps somebody else.

Answer 1

Use the --no-create-db option of mysqldump.

From man mysqldump:

--no-create-db, -n

This option suppresses the CREATE DATABASE statements that are otherwise included in the output if the --databases or --all-databases option is given.