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 way, you can specify how many hours in which you want your machine to shut down. Show Sample Output
((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.
Benefit is that it doesn't make you keep the terminal open.
Any thoughts on this command? Does it work on your machine? Can you do the same thing with only 14 characters?
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