shutdown

Shut down or restart the system.

$ shutdown -P now

Action

Poweroff (-P)

Halt (-H)

Reboot (-r)

TimeMessage

Cancel (-c)

Examples

# Shutdown now
shutdown -P now

# Reboot in 5 minutes
shutdown -r +5 "System update"

# Shutdown at specific time
shutdown -P 23:00

# Cancel shutdown
shutdown -c