Murphy <m@urphy.com> wrote:
> The MySQL manual states the following command should be issued:
>
> setenv PATH ${PATH}:/usr/local/mysql/bin

That is correct if and only if you (or MySQL) use it in a csh shell.
On other shells the following will work:

PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/mysql/bin
export PATH

Yours,
Laurenz Albe