create new sqlite Db

Question

I am working on Mac OS X, I want to create a new SQLite DB, and I am using http://www.sqlite.org/quickstart.html as a reference.

I am entering: sqlite3 test.db

Answer 1

Because that is the administrative shell prompt. The shell created test.db and is now waiting for you to do something with it thus the sqlite> prompt you see.

You may want to create table ... at this point.