Is there any way *from the command line* to get a dump of a mysql table and
have it saved to a local file, instead of standard output
Have a look at "man mysqldump", particularly the "examples" section.
If you're already dumping the table to standard output, just use the same command and redirect the output:
$ mysqldump --tables database.table > some_dump_file
(I didn't test that...)
pjm
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