The installation page at (http://drupal.org/book/view/260) lists the steps for setting up the mysql DB, and instruct the user to:

$ mysql -u nobody -p drupal < database/database.mysql

however, this script does not select a database at start, and so this command will fail. Either the scrip needs to be changed to add a 'use drupal;' command at the top, or the directions need to be modified to say:

$ mysql -u nobody -p drupal drupal < database/database.mysql

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jonbob commented

No, the one "drupal" is enough. The -p switch prompts for a password if followed by a space; I think you are imagining the behavior if -pdrupal had been used instead of -p drupal.