working with sqlite3 in mac os x 10.9

Question

I know that Mac OSx has pre-installed sqlite3.But when I am entering this command, when in /usr/bin directory, sqlite3 test.db i get this displayed on terminal..

Adityas-MacBook-Air:bin adityabahuguna$ sqlite3 test.db
SQLite version 3.7.13 2012-07-17 17:46:21
Enter ".help" for instructions
Enter SQL statements terminated with a ";"

Its fine till now. But when i try to create a table by

sqlite> create table t(name text);

I always get this error:

Error: unable to open database "test.db": unable to open database file

This however does not occur when i directly use create table command without creating a new database. I want to figure out the way to create a new database (say test.db as above).

Answer 1

You're trying to create the database in /usr/bin where normal users don't have write access.

You can write to /usr/bin with root/sudo as suggested by Atul but that's not really something you should do.

Instead, specify a database path that is writable by your normal user, for example

sqlite3 ~/test.db

so the test.db gets created in your home directory.

Answer 2

you need to be logged in as root user to have create database privilege. you can become root user by following these steps: How to Become root user.