Unable to load procedures from an OS command line

[Larry D. Wilson]

This is weird. I'm quite puzzled, and I'm hoping someone's encountered this before and has a solution.

I'm moving a database, and trying to load procedures/functions from an OS command line (in a script - we have tons). Here's the syntax I'm using:

/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql --user=<myuser> --password=<mypw> --host=<host> --port=<port> --database=<db> < sp_myproc.sql

(run in the directory where the file resides)

I created this example file for this post, but shockingly, IT loads. I've also added some dumb statements to try and identify if it's content in ours that's preventing the load):

DELIMITER $$

DROP PROCEDURE IF EXISTS `sp_myproc`;
$$

CREATE PROCEDURE `sp_myproc`
(
  IN p_comment VARCHAR(50)
)
READS SQL DATA 
BEGIN 
  /* 
     May contain C-style comments 
   */
  # May also contain has comments
  SET p_comment = 'processed';

  IF 1=2 THEN 
    SET p_comment = 'whoa...';
  END IF;

  SELECT p_comment;

END;
$$

NONE of the procedures in production ever load. mysql displays no errors (or even comments or warnings when --verbose or --show_warnings are specified). All procedures have been created with Workbench.

Is there a size limit for loading procedures? Could this be character-set related?

Any ideas what could be causing procedures not to load?

PS. FWIW I'm running OSX Lion and mysql 5.5.19 locally with a 5.5.8 target database in Amazon RDS, but since my test works fine, I don't think this is the issue.