Rebooting on the command line

I was prompted to write this post after listening to Jonathan Nadeau talk about accessibility in Ubuntu. He mentioned not knowing how to shutdown a GNU/Linux system from the command line yet. As it happens the command to use is in fact shutdown. Specifically:

shutdown now "The system is going down now"

The command is also available in BSD (Including OSX), Solaris, and even Windows.

See also: Reboot under GNU/Linux, BSD, and Solaris.

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1 Response to Rebooting on the command line

  1. ‘halt’ also does the trick for me. Cheers!

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