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shutdown — Shutdown and reboot the system. More information: <https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/shutdown.

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Problem

How to use the shutdown command: Shutdown and reboot the system. More information: <https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/shutdown.8.html>.

Solution

shutdown — Shutdown and reboot the system. More information: <https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/shutdown.8.html>.

Power off (halt) immediately:

shutdown -h now

Sleep immediately:

shutdown -s now

Reboot immediately:

shutdown -r now

Reboot in 5 minutes:

shutdown -r "+{{5}}"

Power off (halt) at 1:00 pm (Uses 24h clock):

shutdown -h {{1300}}

Reboot on May 10th 2042 at 11:30 am (Input format: YYMMDDHHMM):

shutdown -r {{4205101130}}

Code Snippets

Power off (halt) immediately

shutdown -h now

Sleep immediately

shutdown -s now

Reboot immediately

shutdown -r now

Reboot in 5 minutes

shutdown -r "+{{5}}"

Power off (halt) at 1:00 pm (Uses 24h clock)

shutdown -h {{1300}}

Context

tldr-pages: osx/shutdown

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