Generate DDL of Database tables in MySQL/Mariadb using MySQLDUMP

Get the DDL of tables in MySQL/MariaDB using MYSQLDUMP including DROP:

mysqldump -u root -p --no-data database_name > location\file.sql

C:\WINDOWS\system32>mysqldump -u root -p --no-data test > C:\d\test.txt
Enter password: ********

Following is output:
-- MariaDB dump 10.19  Distrib 10.6.5-MariaDB, for Win64 (AMD64)
--
-- Host: localhost    Database: test
-- ------------------------------------------------------
-- Server version	10.6.5-MariaDB

/*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=@@CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT */;
/*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS=@@CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS */;
/*!40101 SET @OLD_COLLATION_CONNECTION=@@COLLATION_CONNECTION */;
/*!40101 SET NAMES utf8mb4 */;
/*!40103 SET @OLD_TIME_ZONE=@@TIME_ZONE */;
/*!40103 SET TIME_ZONE='+00:00' */;
/*!40014 SET @OLD_UNIQUE_CHECKS=@@UNIQUE_CHECKS, UNIQUE_CHECKS=0 */;
/*!40014 SET @OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@@FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS, FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0 */;
/*!40101 SET @OLD_SQL_MODE=@@SQL_MODE, SQL_MODE='NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO' */;
/*!40111 SET @OLD_SQL_NOTES=@@SQL_NOTES, SQL_NOTES=0 */;

--
-- Table structure for table `c1`
--

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `c1`;
/*!40101 SET @saved_cs_client     = @@character_set_client */;
/*!40101 SET character_set_client = utf8 */;
CREATE TABLE `c1` (
  `cid` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `pid` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`cid`),
  KEY `pid` (`pid`),
  CONSTRAINT `c1_ibfk_1` FOREIGN KEY (`pid`) REFERENCES `p1` (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
/*!40101 SET character_set_client = @saved_cs_client */;

--

-- Table structure for table `test`
--

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `test`;
/*!40101 SET @saved_cs_client     = @@character_set_client */;
/*!40101 SET character_set_client = utf8 */;
CREATE TABLE `test` (
  `name` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
/*!40101 SET character_set_client = @saved_cs_client */;

-- Dump completed on 2022-02-21 13:39:30

Get DDL of the tables of MySQL using MySQLDUMP without including DROP:

mysqldump --skip-add-drop-table -u root -p --no-data database_name > location

C:\WINDOWS\system32>mysqldump --skip-add-drop-table -u root -p --no-data test > C:\d\test12.txt
Enter password: ********

Output:
-- MariaDB dump 10.19  Distrib 10.6.5-MariaDB, for Win64 (AMD64)
--
-- Host: localhost    Database: test
-- ------------------------------------------------------
-- Server version	10.6.5-MariaDB

/*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=@@CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT */;
/*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS=@@CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS */;
/*!40101 SET @OLD_COLLATION_CONNECTION=@@COLLATION_CONNECTION */;
/*!40101 SET NAMES utf8mb4 */;
/*!40103 SET @OLD_TIME_ZONE=@@TIME_ZONE */;
/*!40103 SET TIME_ZONE='+00:00' */;
/*!40014 SET @OLD_UNIQUE_CHECKS=@@UNIQUE_CHECKS, UNIQUE_CHECKS=0 */;
/*!40014 SET @OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@@FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS, FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0 */;
/*!40101 SET @OLD_SQL_MODE=@@SQL_MODE, SQL_MODE='NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO' */;
/*!40111 SET @OLD_SQL_NOTES=@@SQL_NOTES, SQL_NOTES=0 */;

--
-- Table structure for table `c1`
--

/*!40101 SET @saved_cs_client     = @@character_set_client */;
/*!40101 SET character_set_client = utf8 */;
CREATE TABLE `c1` (
  `cid` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `pid` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`cid`),
  KEY `pid` (`pid`),
  CONSTRAINT `c1_ibfk_1` FOREIGN KEY (`pid`) REFERENCES `p1` (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
/*!40101 SET character_set_client = @saved_cs_client */;


-- Dump completed on 2022-02-21 14:30:03

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