Drop all mysql tables without permission to delete and create new database

In mysql, the simplest way to flush all tables is to delete the db and create a new one. However, one might not have permission to do that. So we need a script to list all tables and delete it.

#!/bin/bash

USER=xxx
PASS=xxx
HOST=localhost
DB=xxx

mysqldump -u$USER -p$PASS -h$HOST --no-data --add-drop-table $DB | grep ^DROP | mysql -v -u$USER -p$PASS -h$HOST $DB

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