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I'm trying to import a database from Wamp to Xampp. I run Lampp first, then go to /opt/lampp/bin and run:

mysql (or mysqladmin ?) -u root -h localhost

but I get:

mysql: command line not found

Why isn't it working?

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Does this answer your question? I'm not quite sure what the actual problem is – Michael Mrozek♦ May 10 '12 at 21:02
Also check this up here if you are fed up to input your password and username. Hopefully this saves some time to get started and early trial-and-error. – user2362 May 10 '12 at 23:39
here‌​'s a similar question with some things to try and some questions to get you on the way. – Bram May 11 '12 at 7:08

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Typically the current directory (.) is not inside the PATH for security reasons (assume a user puts an evil executable called ls in /tmp and then root executes it ...).

You can either call it explicitly:

./mysql -uroot -hlocalhost

Or you could add the folder to your PATH:

export PATH=/opt/lampp/bin:$PATH
mysql -uroot -hlocalhost
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Thank you Johannes, That really helped me, in every tutorial I red, they didn t put the ./ that is used for the cd command. Once again, easy, but you can't guess it if you don't know it :) I'm really wonderinng why all the guides I red didn't talk about it... like here for instance – Miles M. May 11 '12 at 14:30
That tutorial uses the package mananger (yum) to install mysql, which puts the mysql in7bin(or rather /usr/bin) which is in $PATH. Other tutorials might be like "yeah well, I didn't think much, but the user will know" which obviously isn't always the case .. – johannes May 11 '12 at 21:50

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