Is there a way to use mysqladmin (or mysql) to truncate a table as a
one-off command from the command line?

I have an issue with importing data from one database into another, but
the second database might have columns that the first did not.

On database 1, I use mysqldump to grab certain tables, and when I try to
simply "overlay" those tables onto the new database, I get an error 

ERROR 1062 (23000) at line 24: Duplicate entry '378-4' for key 1

So we're thinking we should truncate the table first, but it appears
this must be done manually in the mysql> shell, which won't work... this
operation needs to be scripted, or to be presented as one command line
that can be copy-and-pasted.

How can I do something like :

mysqladmin -h db_server -u user -pPASSWORD <DATABASE> truncate table
table1 ?

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* John Oliver                             http://www.john-oliver.net/ *
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