How to drop all tables from the database with manage.py CLI in Django?

Question

How can I drop all tables from a database using manage.py and command line? Is there any way to do that executing manage.py with appropriate parameters so I can execute it f

Answer 1

Here's a shell script I ended up piecing together to deal with this issue. Hope it saves someone some time.

#!/bin/sh

drop() {
    echo "Droping all tables prefixed with $1_."
    echo
    echo "show tables" | ./manage.py dbshell |
    egrep "^$1_" | xargs -I "@@" echo "DROP TABLE @@;" |
    ./manage.py dbshell
    echo "Tables dropped."
    echo
}

cancel() {
    echo "Cancelling Table Drop."
    echo
}

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
    echo "Please specify a table prefix to drop."
else
    echo "Drop all tables with $1_ prefix?"
    select choice in drop cancel;do
        $choice $1
        break
    done
fi