MySQL bulk drop table where table like?

Question

DROP TABLE (
SELECT table_name
FROM information_schema.`TABLES`
WHERE table_schema = \'myDatabase\' AND table_name LIKE BINARY \'del%\');

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Answer 1

If you just need to quickly drop a bunch of tables (not in pure SQL, so not directly answering this question) a one line shell command can do it:

echo "show tables like 'fsm%'" | mysql | tail +2 | while read t; do echo "drop table \`$t\`;"; done | mysql