Can’t access mysql from command line Mac OS

The issue:

On Mac OS when we installed MySQL successfully and tried to access it from command line we got into this issue.

can't access mysql from command line

The MySQL was installed successfully but it was not included in the $PATH variable. When we tried to print that $PATH variable MySQL was not printed.

echo $PATH

We had to add MySQL bin path to the $PATH variable like below in the .bash_profile file.

PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin