MySQL: Cloning a MySQL database on the same MySql instance

I would like to write a script which copies my current database sitedb1 to sitedb2 on the same mysql database instance. I know I can dump the sitedb1 to a sql script:

mysqldump -u root -p sitedb1 >~/db_name.sql

and then import it to sitedb2.
Is there an easier way, without dumping the first database to a sql file?

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