Today I asked someone to make some changes to the /etc/my.cnf file as this setting needed changing for a release.
However they made a small mistake by putting this is the [client] section. This then caused the error in the subject above.
To set this it needs to be under the [mysqld] section of the file, once you do this you can then type mysql from the command prompt.
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