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mysqldump certain tables via prefix_*

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blekfis

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The normal way to use is:
shell> mysqldump [options] db_name [tables]

Is it possible to do something like this
shell> mysqldump [options] db_name [prefix_*]

I want to backup certain tables from a db which all have the same prefix (xyz_a, xyz_b, xyz_c ... )


 
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It seems not, but if you're using a Linux/Unix system, it should not be difficult to write a little script to query the database for matching tables, and use the output to compose the mysqldump command.
 
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