Executed mysqldump, says it completed but shows no data

[yorsite]

I used:
mysqldump -u root - p DATABASE < nameOfSQLdatabase.sql

It goes through the motions and say dump completed, however shows no data?

The file is 68MB should I phpmyadmin it? And if so, what settings do I change to allow for the size of the data?

Is there any other way to do this? Thanks for your help

[longneck]

are you trying to backup your data, or restore it? if you're trying to do a backup, your < should be a >, and if you're trying to do a restore you should be using mysql instead of mysqldump.

[yorsite]

Thank you longneck, not only were you quick--you were right! Thanks again, much appreciated.