How can I describe all tables in the database through one statement?

Question

Is there any statement that can describe all tables in a database?

Something like this:

describe * from myDB;

Answer 1

Not sure if there is a way to get the results to display in a "table" format as it does when running the command from the mysql prompt, but this should describe all tables formatted vertically.

mysql -N -uUSER -pPASSWORD DATABASE_NAME --execute="show tables" | while read table; do mysql -uUSER -pPASSWORD DATABASE_NAME --execute="describe $table \G"; done