Again, this guide is tuned for Ubuntu Linux. More will come.

You can use the following commands to set up your Unix Terminal to make it quick and easy to log in to MySQL without having to type in passwords, etc. You might need to customize this for Mac. I'm on Linux, but it should be very close to this:

$ cat > ~/.mysql-defaults << EOF
[client]
user = root
password = asdf1234
host = 127.0.0.1
EOF

$ cat >> ~/.bashrc << EOF

# alias 'my' to open mysql with default password
alias my='mysql --defaults-extra-file=~/.mysql-defaults'
EOF

The code above contains a "#" in it. That's a bash comment. It might be confusing because in the first section, it was said that the "#" means the root user. In this case it's not the root user and is in fact a code comment.

$ source ~/.bashrc