In this tutorial, we’re going to show you how to shut down your Linux computer using the command-line interface (CLI), aka Terminal.<\/p>\n
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The shutdown command is especially useful for Linux servers<\/a>. It’s also useful if you’re writing a bash script or if you just prefer using the CLI instead of the GUI on your Linux distro.<\/p>\n This tutorial will work on any Linux distro, including Ubuntu<\/a>, Linux Mint, CentOS, Fedora, Debian<\/a>, etc.<\/p>\n So, open up the Terminal, or SSH into your server, and follow the instructions below.<\/p>\n You need to use the root user or use sudo with each command.<\/strong><\/p>\n The basic syntax of the shutdown command is:<\/p>\n The [TIME] is used to delay the shutdown command (shutdown the system after a certain amount of time). It can be specified in the hh:mm format. You can use one digit for the hours too. You can also just use “+m” if you want to wait only a certain amount of minutes.<\/p>\n The [MESSAGE] is a message all other logged-in users see. It’s often used to let others know that the system will shut down and that they should save all their work.<\/p>\n Here are some of the useful [OPTIONS] you can use with the command:<\/p>\n The most basic and often used example of the command is:<\/strong><\/p>\n This command will shut down the Linux system immediately.<\/p>\n Here are some useful examples and use cases of the shutdown command:<\/p>\n To reboot your system using the shutdown command, you just need to use the -r option:<\/p>\n Although a much easier way to reboot a Linux system is to just use the reboot command:<\/p>\n To schedule a shutdown after work hours are over, at 4:15 pm (16:15), run the following command:<\/p>\n If you want to schedule a shutdown 10 minutes after running the command (giving you enough time to save everything), run the following command:<\/p>\n To reboot the system in 5 minutes and broadcast a message to all users, run:<\/p>\n shutdown -r +5 “The server will reboot in 5 minutes due to kernel upgrades. Please save your work.”<\/p>\n If you scheduled a shutdown command by mistake, you can cancel it with the -c option:<\/p>\n You can combine all these examples\/options and create a shutdown command of your own.<\/p>\n Now that you learned what the shutdown command can do, you can clearly see its usefulness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In this tutorial, we’re going to show you how to shut down your Linux computer using the command-line interface (CLI), aka Terminal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[133,180],"class_list":{"0":"post-1474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tutorials","8":"tag-commands","9":"tag-shutdown","10":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/linuxstans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/shutdown-linux.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxstans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxstans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxstans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxstans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxstans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/linuxstans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1496,"href":"https:\/\/linuxstans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions\/1496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxstans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxstans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxstans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxstans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}How to use the shutdown command on Linux<\/h2>\n
shutdown [OPTIONS...] [TIME] [MESSAGE...]<\/pre>\n
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sudo shutdown -h now<\/pre>\n
5 Examples of the shutdown command on Linux<\/h2>\n
Reboot your system<\/h3>\n
shutdown -r now<\/pre>\n
reboot<\/pre>\n
Schedule a shutdown at 4:15 pm with a message<\/h3>\n
shutdown -h 16:15 \"The server will shut down at 4:15pm, please save everything before leaving work.\"<\/pre>\n
Schedule a shutdown after 10 minutes<\/h3>\n
shutdown -h +10<\/pre>\n
Reboot the system after 5 minutes with a message<\/h3>\n
Cancel a scheduled shutdown<\/h3>\n
shutdown -c<\/pre>\n