How can I find all the tables in MySQL with specific column names in them?

I have 2-3 different column names that I want to look up in the entire database and list out all tables which have those columns. Is there any easy script?

To get all tables with columns columnA or ColumnB in the database YourDatabase:

SELECT DISTINCT TABLE_NAME 
    FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
    WHERE COLUMN_NAME IN ('columnA','ColumnB')
        AND TABLE_SCHEMA='YourDatabase';

SELECT TABLE_NAME, COLUMN_NAME
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
WHERE COLUMN_NAME LIKE '%wild%';

More simply done in one line of SQL:

SELECT * FROM information_schema.columns WHERE column_name = 'column_name';

SELECT DISTINCT TABLE_NAME, COLUMN_NAME  
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS  
WHERE column_name LIKE 'employee%'  
AND TABLE_SCHEMA='YourDatabase'

In older MySQL versions or some MySQL NDB Cluster versions that do not have information_schema, you can dump the table structure and search the column manually.

mysqldump -h$host -u$user -p$pass --compact --no-data --all-databases > some_file.sql

Now search the column name in some_file.sql using your preferred text editor, or use some nifty AWK scripts.

And a simple sed script to find the column. Just replace COLUMN_NAME with yours:

sed -n '/^USE/{h};/^CREATE/{H;x;s/\nCREATE.*\n/\n/;x};/COLUMN_NAME/{x;p};' <some_file.sql
USE `DATABASE_NAME`;
CREATE TABLE `TABLE_NAME` (
  `COLUMN_NAME` varchar(10) NOT NULL,

You can pipe the dump directly in sed, but that's trivial.