Quickly dump all MySQL databases.

dump-all-dbs.sh

#!/bin/bash

BACKUP_DIR="/Users/`whoami`/Desktop/db-backups/"

MYSQL_HOST="localhost"
MYSQL_USER="root"
MYSQL_PASS=""
MYSQL_BACKUP_DIR="$BACKUP_DIR"
MYSQL_PATH="$(which mysql)"
MYSQLDUMP_PATH="$(which mysqldump)"
THE_DATE="$(date '+%Y-%m-%d')"

DBS="$($MYSQL_PATH -h $MYSQL_HOST -u$MYSQL_USER -p$MYSQL_PASS -Bse 'show databases')"
for db in $DBS
do
  echo "Dumping: $db..."
  $MYSQLDUMP_PATH -u $MYSQL_USER -p$MYSQL_PASS $db | gzip > $MYSQL_BACKUP_DIR$db\_$THE_DATE.sql.gz
done