If you want to dump all rows in a table from the server to a file, you can use "mysqldump" with the "-f fileName" option as show in the following tutorial exercise:
>cd mysqlbin
>mysqldump -u root -r templinks.txt test links
>type templinks.txt
>type templinks.txt | more -- MySQL dump 10.10 --
-- Host: localhost Database: test -- ------------------------------------------------------
-- Server version 5.0.24-community ...
The dump file contains SQL statements that you can use to restore the table and its data content.