I have a large SQL file with one database and about 150 tables. I would like to use mysqlimport to import that database, however, I would like the import process to ignore or skip over a couple of tables. What is the proper syntax to import all tables, but ignore some of them? Thank you.
mysqlimport is not the right tool for importing SQL statements. This tool is meant to import formatted text files such as CSV. What you want to do is feed your sql dump directly to the mysql client with a command like this one:
bash > mysql -D your_database < your_sql_dump.sql
Neither mysql nor mysqlimport provide the feature you need. Your best chance would be importing the whole dump, then dropping the tables you do not want.
If you have access to the server where the dump comes from, then you could create a new dump with mysqldump --ignore-table=database.table_you_dont_want1 --ignore-table=database.table_you_dont_want2 ....
Check out this answer for a workaround to skip importing some table