shutdown pc in a 4 hours

shutdown -h $((60 * 4))

((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.

By: retrodanny

2011-05-02 07:10:10

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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.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
5

shutdown -h +240

joedhon · 2011-05-02 18:38:57 5
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.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
4

shutdown -h 240 & disown

adelie42 · 2011-05-02 18:22:09 4
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. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
The system is going down for maintenance NOW!
```
1

shutdown 60*4 & disown

benjabean1 · 2011-05-09 02:44:55 4
shutdown pc in a 4 hours

Benefit is that it doesn't make you keep the terminal open.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
-2

echo "shutdown -h now" | sudo at now + 4 hours

depesz · 2011-05-02 15:29:48 4
shutdown pc in a 4 hours
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-4

sleep 4h && halt

javisol · 2011-05-02 13:46:30 4

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