Restart, Start, Stop MySQL from the Command Line Terminal, OSX, Linux

To restart, start or stop MySQL server from the command line, type the following at the shell prompt…

On Linux start/stop/restart from the command line:

 /etc/init.d/mysqld start

 /etc/init.d/mysqld stop

 /etc/init.d/mysqld restart

Some Linux flavours offer the service command too

 service mysqld start

 service mysqld stop

 service mysqld restart

or

 service mysql start

 service mysql stop

 service mysql restart

On OS X to start/stop/restart MySQL pre 5.7  from the command line:

 sudo /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server start

 sudo /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server stop

 sudo /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server restart