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

My solution:

mysqldump -u username -p mydatabase `mysql -B --disable-column-names -u username -p mydatabase -e "SHOW TABLES LIKE 'bak\_%'" | sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/ /g'`