rails db -p use mycli as MySQL client (shell wrapper for https://www.mycli.net/)

mysql

#!/bin/bash
# usage:
# save this file into $HOME/bin/mysql (don't forget to make it executable)
# and make sure $HOME/bin is in PATH environment variable before folder where original mysql binary is located.
# for instance mysql binary is here: /usr/local/bin/mysql, than PATH should be like:
# /home/user/bin:/usr/local/bin:...
set -e

declare -a args=()

for arg in "$@"; do
  # exclude unsupported --default-character-set=... option
  [[ "$arg" =~ ^--default-character-set= ]] && continue

  args+=("$arg")
done

exec mycli "${args[@]}"