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Database Dump

Posted April 10, 2014 3.3k views
I'm trying to dump my SQL datbase, and I keep getting the following error: mysqldump: Got error: 1045: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) when trying to connect I'm using the following command to do this: root@applewildschool:~# mysqldump -u root -p applewild > applewild.sql What am I doing wrong?
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scmainacc April 10, 2014
remove the space between -p applewild and try again.
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will202979 April 10, 2014
Thanks for your response! It looks like it may have worked.

But how will I know if the file is correct?
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kamaln7 April 10, 2014
You can take a look at the file's contents by running 
less applewild.sql
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sid1 June 10, 2015

i am still getting the similar error even after removing the space after -p

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