Ok, once again, the syntax is:
mysqladmin -u username --password=yourpassword <commands>
This means when you type it, you need a single '-' (minus sign, dash, whatever) in front of u. Then a space and your username. Then a space, two dashes, the word "password" followed by an equal sign, followed by your actual password, followed by whatever commands you need to run.
If this still doesn't make sense, do a
mysqladmin -?
It will should you all the options and commands and their syntax. There are two ways to do the username and password.
For username it is either:
-u username or
--user=username
and for password it is either:
-p password or
--password=yourpassword
Please note, it must be a lowercase p, otherwise it thinks you are talking about a port number.
Again, if it won't work still, take a look at
mysqladmin -?
You should be able to copy the statement I gave you before and just change the username and password to the correct values and it should work. But the punctuation, capitalization, spacing and spelling need to stay the same.
Dave
