Question

I am working on a script most of it works fine until it gets to line 27 of it. Which is where I have the script login to MySQL as root, create a new database and then exit MySQL.

echo "CREATE DATABASE databasename;exit;" | mysql -h localhost -u root -p --password=passwordhere

Am I calling the command correctly because it fails on this line every time and how would I fix it?

OS is Ubuntu 10.10 32 bit.

Error: ./install: line 27:  mysql: command not found

Answer 1

How about doing this:

$ mysql -h localhost -u root --password=password -e "CREATE DATABASE databasename;"