There is now a mysql-client formula.
brew install mysql-client
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
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/
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.
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.
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 '[email protected]: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`.
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
Best option is:
brew install mysql
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.
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:$PATH
This will let you run mysql from anywhere as you.
This strictly installs a command line client, without the other overhead:
Install Homebrew (if you don't have it):
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(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:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
Finally, reload your bash profile:
source ~/.bash_profile
Then you should be able to run mysql in a terminal, if not try opening a new terminal
As stated by the earlier answer you can get both mysql server and client libs by running
brew install mysql.
There is also client only installation. To install only client libraries run
brew install mysql-connector-c
In order to run these commands, you need homebrew package manager in your mac. You can install it by running
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
Source: Stackoverflow.com