MYSQL_DATA=mydb
MYSQL_USER=root
MYSQL_PASS=rootpassword
MYSQL_CONN="-u${MYSQL_USER} -p${MYSQL_PASS}"
SQL="SET group_concat_max_len = 102400;"
SQL="${SQL} SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(CONCAT('--ignore-table=',table_name) SEPARATOR ' ')"
SQL="${SQL} FROM information_schema.tables WHERE table_schema='${MYSQL_DATA}'"
SQL="${SQL} AND table_name LIKE 'foo_%'"
EXCLUSION_LIST=`mysql ${MYSQL_CONN} -AN -e"${SQL}"`
mysqldump ${MYSQL_CONN} ${MYSQL_DATA} ${EXCLUSION_LIST} > ${MYSQL_DATA}_tables.sql

SQL="${SQL} AND table_name LIKE 'foo_%'"

SQL="${SQL} AND table_name REGEXP '_BAK_2[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]"