Hey there,
i was going to write a new path to MySQL into the .profile document on my Mac, so that i can access MySQL simply through typing 'mysql' into the command line and not having to write the whole path each time. Here is what i wrote in .profile:

PATH=$PATH:/Application/MAMP/Library/bin/
export PATH

But i made a spelling mistake in the path, and now it seems that i can't change it in the .profile document anymore. I would always get this error msg in terminal:

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-bash: export: `/Application/MAMP/Library/bin': not a valid identifier
110:~ appleuser$ mysql
-bash: mysql: command not found
110:~ appleuser$

Is there a way to get that changed?

Thanks so much for your help!

honorfield

Ok, i found my answer already.
I had to type the following line into the terminal:

sudo ln -s /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysql /usr/local/bin/mysql

that gave me the following error massage:

ln: /usr/local/bin/mysql: No such file or directory

So i created the directory with:

sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/bin

And typed the first command again and than it worked.
Now i can access MySQL just by typing mysql into the terminal.
I don't have to type the whole path anymore.