how to pass password in mysql command line

Question

I've a password with special characters in it, something like this eu8y~!~LZVdzW!2A .

Whenever, I try to fire the mysqldump command, it throws an error saying

mysqldump: Got error: 1045: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) when trying to connect

this is how I do it.

mysqldump -uroot -p'eu8y~!~LZVdzW!2A' db_name > db.sql

however, if provide the password separately, it works.

mysqldump -uroot -p db_name > db.sql

I run the above command in python. How can I do it?

Answer 1

I can't reproduce the problem:

mysql> CREATE USER 'myuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'eu8y~!~LZVdzW!2A';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> GRANT ALL ON `db_name`.* TO 'myuser'@'localhost';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

$ mysqldump -umyuser -p'eu8y~!~LZVdzW!2A' db_name > db.sql

The file ( db.sql ) is generated as expected.