mysqlimport: Error: The used command is not allowed with this MySQL version, when using table

Hello to everybody, I installed mysql ver 11.17 distrib 3.23.49a on redhat 7.2. I would like to import data into database table using command line instructions. I tried mysqlimport but I got the following error messagge mysqlimport: Error: The used command is not allowed with this MySQL version,

enable-local-infile=1 or where can I found older version?

I installed mysql version 3.23.51 on redhat 7.2 (but I had the same problem with version 3.23.49a) I am not able to load data form text file neather with the load command or with mysqlimport The error message is "The used command is not allowed with this Mysql version" I found some mail telling