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I am using WP CLI to download and install WordPress using MAMP. I run into this error however when trying wp config create 

env: mysql: No such file or directory

Couldn't find anything that addressed this error on developer.wordpress and other searches. I could edit the file manually of course, but that would spoil all the fun. Ideas?

Dylan Nirvana
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If you can't connect to your database there are a few possibilities. One of them is, that you're using MAMP, like in your and my case, but WP-CLI is not using the MAMP PHP binary. You can check that by running

wp --info

To specify the MAMP PHP binary you'll need to modify your PATH enviroment variable. You have to add 

PHP_VERSION=$(ls /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/ | sort -n | tail -1)
export PATH=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/${PHP_VERSION}/bin:$PATH

to your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.zsh_profile

If you want to use a specific PHP Version (eg. 5.5.26) just use

export PATH=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.5.26/bin:$PATH

After saving the file run:

source ~/.bash_profile

and

wp --info

to check your changes.

For further reading check the WP-CLI Handbook for using a custom PHP binary

Captain S.
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    Welcome to Stackoverflow. Could you add more details? Your answer was flagged for its length and content. – www139 Nov 20 '17 at 19:46