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Commands using shutdown

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Terminal - Commands using shutdown - 13 results
sudo shutdown 3600 -P
2013-04-14 16:14:23
User: unixmonkey45290
Functions: shutdown sudo
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Wait a moment and then Power off

You can easily stop shutdowning process by CTRL+C

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shutdown now -r
2013-04-05 15:28:55
User: techie
Functions: shutdown
-20
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Reboot

Reboot

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while pgrep wget || sudo shutdown -P now; do sleep 1m; done
2012-05-20 17:49:56
User: kev
Functions: shutdown sleep sudo wget
Tags: wget Shutdown
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shutdown if wget exit
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shutdown 60*4 & disown
2011-05-09 02:44:55
User: benjabean1
Functions: shutdown
Tags: bash
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shutdown pc in 4 hours without needing to keep terminal open / user logged in.

This way, you can specify how many hours in which you want your machine to shut down.

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shutdown -h +240
2011-05-02 18:38:57
User: joedhon
Functions: shutdown
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shutdown pc in a 4 hours

you may as well use shutdown -h 18:32 to shutdown your machine at 18:32.

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shutdown -h 240 & disown
2011-05-02 18:22:09
User: adelie42
Functions: shutdown
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shutdown pc in 4 hours without needing to keep terminal open / user logged in.

From the 'disown' man page:

disown prevents the current shell from sending a HUP signal to each of the given jobs when the current shell terminates a login session.

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shutdown -h $((60 * 4))
2011-05-02 07:10:10
User: retrodanny
Functions: shutdown
0
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shutdown pc in a 4 hours
((60 * 4)) will be turned into 240 by bash before being input to the shutdown command, replace the 4 with whatever number of hours you want, let bash do the math.
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shutdown -r now
2011-02-05 15:53:36
User: systemv
Functions: shutdown
0
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orderly shutdown system and reboot.

Good practice to use "shutdown -r now" instead of reboot.

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for ((;;)) do pgrep wget ||shutdown -h now; sleep 5; done
2010-12-15 08:51:09
User: lishuai860113
Functions: shutdown sleep wget
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if download end,shutdown
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shutdown -rF now
2009-10-05 15:02:36
User: SuperFly
Functions: shutdown
2
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Force an fsck on reboot

Force an fsck on reboot. Useful on a system where / has mounted read-only because of file system issues.

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shutdown -h 60
2009-08-23 11:02:39
User: MikeTheGreat
Functions: shutdown
Tags: Shutdown
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power off system in X minutes

Replace 60 with the number of minutes until you want the machine to shut down.

Alternatively give an absolute time in the format hh:mm (shutdown -h 9:30)

Or shutdown right away (shutdown -h now)

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net rpc shutdown -I ipAddressOfWindowsPC -U username%password
2009-05-31 07:18:01
User: LrdShaper
Functions: shutdown
Tags: Linux windows
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Shutdown a Windows machine from Linux

This will issue a shutdown command to the Windows machine. username must be an administrator on the Windows machine. Requires samba-common package installed. Other relevant commands are:

net rpc shutdown -r : reboot the Windows machine

net rpc abortshutdown : abort shutdown of the Windows machine

Type:

net rpc

to show all relevant commands

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for i in $(seq 0 5) ; do echo "5 - $i" | bc -l ; sleep 60 ; done && echo "bye, bye" && shutdown -h now
2009-03-13 12:16:35
User: arctarus
Functions: bc echo seq shutdown sleep
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Five Minutes To Go

command to turn off your computer when you go home and can not wait

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