I use the mysql command line tool to administrate my MySQL. I needed a quick way to drop all tables with the following prefix.

SELECT CONCAT('DROP TABLE `', TABLE_SCHEMA, '`.`', TABLE_NAME, '`;') FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_NAME LIKE 'prefix%' and TABLE_SCHEMA = 'dbname';

Then all you have to do is take a text editor and replace all the “|” signs around the result.

PS: As you can see the query can be modified to get all tables with suffix, or all tables in a schema, or TRUNCATE all tables in the criteria.