mysql dump throwing "-bash: 32: command not found" and creating a 20 bytes files

mysqldump -u(username) -p(password) --no-data --quick
--skip-add-drop-table --replace (database_name) authors_main

getting commond not found error while trying to run above command on UNIX. (this used to work completely fine a month b开发者_开发技巧ack)

Thanks for all the help in anticipation

Maybe you should check whether your password has special characters like ! or # or @ etc and make sure they are not wrongly interpreted by shell