Warning!
If someone gains access to your account they will be able to easily escalate to root privileges.
Create file ~/.my.cnf and add the following lines in it and replace mysqluser & mysqlpass values.
[client] user=mysql_user_name password=mysql_password
For safety, make this file readable to you only by running chmod 0600 ~/.my.cnf
Purpose
Next time you run mysql commands mysql, mysqlcheck, mysqdump, etc; they will pick username & password from this file if you do not provide them as argument (-u and -p). It can save your time.
Of-course, if you specify username and password explicitly as part of commands arguments, they will be used.
