I am on m1 mac os ventura
using .zshrc and mamp.
I added the path in my .zshrc txt file
export PATH="/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/:$PATH"
in terminal
mysql --version
returns
Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.7.34, for osx11.0 (x86_64) using EditLine wrapper
in terminal
mysql.server start
returns
zsh: command not found: mysql.server
How do i troubleshoot and fix this?
using monteray 12.6
putting
mysql --version
into the terminal gives me
zsh: command not found: mysql
but if i do
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql --version
i get
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql Ver 8.0.31 for macos12 on x86_64 (MySQL Community Server - GPL)
which works
folder paths
https://imgur.com/a/Zw0E3Hv
my .bash_profile
https://imgur.com/a/Zw0E3Hv
export PATH="${PATH}:/usr/local/mysql/bin/"
.zshrc
https://imgur.com/a/7qtR7Om
put
export PATH=/usr/local/mysql-8.0.31-macos12-x86_64/bin:$PATH
in .zshrc file
thanks to user
user1934428
for taking the time to reply to me
I have installed MySQL with .dmg installation file according to the official page. But it returns command not found: mysql when I execute mysql command.
How to fix this issue?
The documentation for MySQL says:
When installing using the package installer, the files are installed into a directory within /usr/local matching the name of the installation version and platform. For example, the installer file mysql-5.7.29-osx10.13-x86_64.dmg installs MySQL into /usr/local/mysql-5.7.29-osx10.13-x86_64/.
Once you verify that there is a bin folder in this directory, you have to make sure that the terminal looks for the MySQL command there. This can be done by executing the following command:
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/<my-path>/bin
Adding the following line to .bash_profile worked for me:
export PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/mysql/bin/
Then either restart the terminal or to apply the changes to an existing session, run:
source ~/.bash_profile
If you had installed mysql#5.7 using brew:
paste/type below command in terminal:
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/mysql#5.7/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
then paste/type:
mysql -u root
boom!!!!
reason: brew files are installed in usr/local/opt
Try this if you have not upgraded your OS and wants to access mysql
instead of -> mysql -u root -p
use -> /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql -u root -p
I want to install the MySQL client for the command line, not a GUI. I have searched over the web but only found instructions on installing the MySQL server.
install MySQLWorkbench, then
export PATH=$PATH:/Applications/MySQLWorkbench.app/Contents/MacOS
This strictly installs a command line client, without the other overhead:
Install Homebrew (if you don't have it):
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
Then, install mysql-client:
brew install mysql-client
Then, add the mysql-client binary directory to your PATH:
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/mysql-client/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
Finally, reload your bash profile:
source ~/.bash_profile
Then you should be able to run mysql in a terminal, if not try opening a new terminal
If you have already installed MySQL from the disk image (dmg) from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/), open a terminal, run:
echo 'export PATH=/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bash_profile
then, reload .bash_profile by running following command:
. ~/.bash_profile
You can now use mysql to connect to any mysql server:
mysql -h xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -u username -p
Credit & Reference: http://www.gigoblog.com/2011/03/13/add-mysql-to-terminal-shell-in-mac-os-x/
Best option is:
brew install mysql
Mysql has a client-only set of utilities:
Mysql client shell
https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/shell/
Other command line utilities
https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/utilities/
Mac OSX version available.
There is now a mysql-client formula.
brew install mysql-client
For installing mysql-shell with homebrew, run
brew cask install mysql-shell
you can then launch the mysql shell with
mysqlsh
if you want to enter SQL mode directly, run
mysqlsh --sql
Open the "MySQL Workbench" DMG file and
# Adjust the path to the version of MySQL Workbench you downloaded
cp "/Volumes/MySQL Workbench 6.3.9.CE/MySQLWorkbench.app/Contents/MacOS/mysql" /usr/local/bin
# Make sure it's executable
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/mysql
Eject the DMG disk
Installation command from brew:
$ brew cask install mysql-shell
Look at what you can do:
$ mysqlsh --help
Run query from mysqlsh client installed:
$ mysqlsh --host=192.x.x.x --port=3306 --user=user --password=xxxxx
MySQL Shell 8.0.18
Copyright (c) 2016, 2019, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates.
Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Type '\help' or '\?' for help; '\quit' to exit.
WARNING: Using a password on the command line interface can be insecure.
Creating a session to 'user#192.x.x.x:3306'
Fetching schema names for autocompletion... Press ^C to stop.
Your MySQL connection id is 16
Server version: 8.0.18 MySQL Community Server - GPL
No default schema selected;
type \use <schema> to set one.
MySQL 192.x.x.x:3306 ssl JS >
MySQL 192.x.x.x:3306 ssl JS > `\use rafdb`
Default schema set to `rafdb`.
If you installed from the DMG on a mac, it created a mysql client but did not put it in your user path.
Add this to your .bash_profile:
export PATH="/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH
This will let you run mysql from anywhere as you.
As stated by the earlier answer you can get both mysql server and client libs by running
brew install mysql.
There is also client only installation. To install only client libraries run
brew install mysql-connector-c
In order to run these commands, you need homebrew package manager in your mac. You can install it by running
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
Using MacPorts you can install the client with:
sudo port install mysql57
You also need to select the installed version as your mysql
sudo port select mysql mysql57
The server is only installed if you append -server to the package name (e.g. mysql57-server)
The easiest way would be to install mysql server or workbench, copy the mysql client somewhere, update your path settings and then delete whatever you installed to get the executable in the first place.
The mysql client is available in macOS ports. If you don't have this excellent third party package manager already installed, it is available from here: https://www.macports.org/
Once you have installed macports, open a terminal and make sure everything is up to date:
sudo port selfupdate
There are multiple different versions of MySQL and mariadb (community fork of MySQL) available in the ports repos. List available versions using the following command:
port search 'mariadb*'
I recommend choosing mariadb over mysql as it is, mostly, a drop in replacement (https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-vs-mysql-compatibility/) and has excellent community support.
If applicable, choose which version of mariadb you want (a list of versions of mariadb is available here: https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/+releases/). If you're not bothered, install the default version:
sudo port install mariadb
Mariadb (including the mysql-compatible command line client) is now available on your system. On my system, the CLI client resides in the following location:
$ /opt/local/bin/mysql --version
/opt/local/bin/mysql Ver 15.1 Distrib 5.5.68-MariaDB, for osx10.15 (x86_64) using readline 5.1
It's obviously a bit inconvenient to type out the full path, /opt/local/bin/mysql each time you want to use the client. Ports has already thought of this problem. To view available versions of mysql on your system, run:
$ port select mysql
Available versions for mysql:
mariadb (active)
none
Choose one from the list. For example, to use mariadb as the default mysql client:
sudo port select mysql mariadb
Now open a fresh terminal window and you should be able to start the mariadb mysql CLI client:
mysql -h <hostname> -u <username> -p
if you need a lighter solution i recommend mysql-shell, install using the command below.
brew cask install mysql-shell
To start after installation type mysqlsh.
I'm trying to get MySQL up and running on my Mac OS X 10.9.5.
I've installed the latest version 5.6.21 of MySQL Community Server. I've gone to system preferences and started the mysql server, then launched terminal and typed this:
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql --version
which should return the version. But when I type any of the mysql commands I get command not found.
I've also tried:
sudo mysql_secure_installation
mysql -u root --password=password`
I do have web hosting with MySQL etc installed, but I want to be able to get to grips with it in the command line first.
So there are few places where terminal looks for commands. This places are stored in your $PATH variable. Think of it as a global variable where terminal iterates over to look up for any command. This are usually binaries look how /bin folder is usually referenced.
/bin folder has lots of executable files inside it. Turns out this are command. This different folder locations are stored inside one Global variable i.e. $PATH separated by :
Now usually programs upon installation takes care of updating PATH & telling your terminal that hey i can be all commands inside my bin folder.
Turns out MySql doesn't do it upon install so we manually have to do it.
We do it by following command,
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin
If you break it down, export is self explanatory. Think of it as an assignment. So export a variable PATH with value old $PATH concat with new bin i.e. /usr/local/mysql/bin
This way after executing it all the commands inside /usr/local/mysql/bin are available to us.
There is a small catch here. Think of one terminal window as one instance of program and maybe something like $PATH is class variable ( maybe ). Note this is pure assumption. So upon close we lose the new assignment. And if we reopen terminal we won't have access to our command again because last when we exported, it was stored in primary memory which is volatile.
Now we need to have our mysql binaries exported every-time we use terminal. So we have to persist concat in our path.
You might be aware that our terminal using something called dotfiles to load configuration on terminal initialisation. I like to think of it's as sets of thing passed to constructer every-time a new instance of terminal is created ( Again an assumption but close to what it might be doing ). So yes by now you get the point what we are going todo.
.bash_profile is one of the primary known dotfile.
So in following command,
echo 'export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin' >> ~/.bash_profile
What we are doing is saving result of echo i.e. output string to ~/.bash_profile
So now as we noted above every-time we open terminal or instance of terminal our dotfiles are loaded. So .bash_profile is loaded respectively and export that we appended above is run & thus a our global $PATH gets updated and we get all the commands inside /usr/local/mysql/bin.
P.s.
if you are not running first command export directly but just running second in order to persist it? Than for current running instance of terminal you have to,
source ~/.bash_profile
This tells our terminal to reload that particular file.
That means /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql is not in the PATH variable..
Either execute /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql to get your mysql shell,
or type this in your terminal:
PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin
to add that to your PATH variable so you can just run mysql without specifying the path
for me the following commands worked:
$ brew install mysql
$ brew services start mysql
You can just modified the .bash_profile by adding the MySQL $PATH as the following:
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin.
I did the following:
1- Open Terminal then $ nano .bash_profile or $ vim .bash_profile
2- Add the following PATH code to the .bash_profile
# Set architecture flags
export ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64"
# Ensure user-installed binaries take precedence
export PATH=/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH
# Load .bashrc if it exists
test -f ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc
3- Save the file.
4- Refresh Terminal using $ source ~/.bash_profile
5- To verify, type in Terminal $ mysql --version
6- It should print the output something like this:
$ mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.7.17, for macos10.12 (x86_64)
The Terminal is now configured to read the MySQL commands from $PATH which is placed in the .bash_profile .
modify your bash profile as follows
<>$vim ~/.bash_profile
export PATH=/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH
Once its saved you can type in mysql to bring mysql prompt in your terminal.
You have to create a symlink to your mysql installation if it is not the most recent version of mysql.
$ brew link --force mysql#5.6
see this post by Alex Todd