How can I access the mysql command line tool when using XAMPP in OS X?

Question

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".

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

1. Open your .profile file in Mac. This can be done by entering the terminal and typing

    pico ~/.profile 

2. Add 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:$PATH 

3. Open a new terminal window (Recommendation is to quit all terminal windows and then reopen) and type:

    mysql 

That is all, isn't easy!!

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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

Answer 5

Since 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.