ShutDown LiNuX MacOS WindowsNT

PREAMBLE
Tutorial expresses the author's subjective ideas and conform to AAL license.


Description
Used for shuting down machines running POSIX.


Intro
Save all your work and run the terminal emulator.

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LINUX

-h halt after shutdown

-f fast reboot without fsck

-F force fsck on reboot

-t time in second (immediately -t now)

-r reboot

-c cancel action

$ sudo shutdown -f now (super fast) $ sudo shutdown -f -h now (fastest halt) $ sudo shutdown -n -r now (pretty fast) $ sudo shutdown -r +9 & (reboot after 9 minutes) $ sudo shutdown -h 23:45 & (halt system at 23:45)

ONE_MORE_THING_OS

Cancel the shutdown procedure

$ sudo killall shutdown 

Reboot at Thu Dec 31 23:45:00 2099

$ sudo shutdown -r 9912312345

Put system to sleep at specified time 

$ sudo shutdown -s 17:17

Next commands

$ sudo shutdown -r 18:18

And

$ sudo shutdown -r 1818

Have same effect

OR

Press CTRL+EJECT buttons to call the shutdown dialog box.

WINDOWS_NT

/r - reboot

/s - shutdown

/l - log off 

/a - abort (cancel shutdown)

/p - turn off only local computer (remote not) but the power to the computer will remain on

/h - activate hibernation mode (only with /f)

/o - changes to Advanced Boot Options (with /r only)

/f - force any operation (my result in lost of unsaved data)

/t - Set the timeout in seconds 

/c - comment you reason (in “some” brackets)

Last thoughts

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