mysqldump restore

[eric smith]

Stuck again,
All of the examples I have been able to find on the web show the following way of creating a new database for receiving the restored backup
mysql -u -p CREATE DATABASE "dbmysql"

I have tried the following from the command line-
mysql - u -p
mysql> CREATE DATABASE "dbname";
OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
So the new database is created.
I have tried to implement this in one line so as to use it in a script like this
mysql -u$user -p$password CREATE DATABASE $db_name;

This does not seem to work.
I get all the blurb about mysql and Oracle
and followedby Usage: mysql [OPTIONS] etc.
I have tried putting the line into a script file and running it but get the same result . In both cases terminal and script it seems to fail when it gets to the CREATE command.
Obviously doing something wrong but unable to figure out what.