MySQL :: MySQL 5.0 Reference Manual :: 4.5.6 mysqlshow — Display Database, Table, and Column Informa

I needed to drop 38 tables on database php1 and could not find a metadata table on which I could execute SQL like: delete from metadata where table_name like 'phpbb208%' Workaround-Solution: mysqlshow -uroot -p php1 phpbb208\\_% |sed 's/[|+-]//g'|

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