Mysqldump only tables with certain prefix / Mysqldump wildcards?

Question

I have this huge, messy database I am cleaning up. It houses 500+ tables, which is the result of combining Magento Enterprise with Joomla in one single DB.

To make t

Answer 1

There are already a lot of good answers, but I came here with such variation:

mysql MY_DATABASE -N -u MY_MYSQLUSER -p -e 'show tables like "%MY_LIKE_CODE%";' |
xargs mysqldump MY_DATABASE -u MY_MYSQLUSER -p |
gzip > ~/backup/`date +%Y%m%d:::%H:%M:%S-MY_DAMP.sql.gz`

By this action I made a table dump by the mask like %mask% from the database to a single file. Hopefully someone will find it useful.