MySQL: how to drop multiple tables using single query?

Question

I want to drop multiple tables with ease without actually listing the table names in the drop query and the tables to be deleted have prefix say \'wp_\'

Answer 1

For the great mysqldump solution it's better to use the option --skip-quote-names

mysqldump --skip-quote-names -u user -p database > dump.sql 
grep "DROP TABLE wp_" dump.sql > drop.sql
mysql -u user -p database < drop.sql

You get rid of backticks in table names. The grep part won't work in some enviroments with the backticks.