I've got a vanilla install of XAMPP in OS X. How can I access the mysql command line tool? I've tried typing "mysql" at the command line, and it spits back "-bash: mysql: command not found".
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XAMPP is installed in Mac OS X in the following directory:
/Applications/XAMPP/
You can look what's inside that directory and run mysql command line tool providing the full path to it:
$ /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin/mysql
If you need, you can modify your PATH environment variable to include XAMPP binaries and you won't need to specify the whole path all the time.
answered Jul 28, 2010 at 14:51
Pablo Santa Cruz
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Open your .profile file in Mac. This can be done by entering the terminal and typing
pico ~/.profileAdd the following line to your ./profile file. Replace the path where you installed Xampp, however by default this is the route and should work:
export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/bin:$PATHOpen a new terminal window (Recommendation is to quit all terminal windows and then reopen) and type:
mysql
That is all, isn't easy!!
Open terminal and Follow this bellow step to add mysql to your mac environmental variable
step 1:
sudo nano ~/.bash_profile
step 2:
export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/bin:$PATH
save it by control+x and then y and hit return. That's it!! now close the terminal and reopen
mysql --version
this will tell you which MySQL version you are using with xampp
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Tristanisginger
this should be added ~/.profile rather than ~/.bash_profile as it is an enviromental variable and has nowt to do with bash. superuser.com/questions/789448/…
Before using the mysql command, make sure that you start up the server first by running
$ mysql.server start
Then you will be able to use the commands mysqladmin and mysql.
To shut it down, run
$ mysql.server stop
and to restart just use
$ mysql.server restart
Very intuitive.
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Chris Johnson
@tq, don't type the
$ -- that's a stand-in for the bash promptSince I cannot comment on the accepted answer by Pablo Santa Cruz - Here's some additional info. If you're going to modify your PATH environment variable to include XAMPP binaries, make sure you add
/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin
and not
/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin/mysql
to the /etc/paths file. To do this run the command
sudo nano /etc/paths
then add the path to the file. Save using Ctrl+O and exit using Ctrl+X. Quit terminal and open again.
