poweroff

Power off the system

Overview

Powers off the system by sending an ACPI signal to remove power. Often a symlink to systemctl poweroff or equivalent to `shutdown -P now`.

poweroff [OPTION]...

-f, --force

Force poweroff without calling shutdown. Use with extreme caution.

--halt

Halt the system instead of powering off.

--reboot

Reboot the system instead of powering off.

-w, --wtmp-only

Don't actually power off, but write wtmp record. For testing/logging.

--no-wtmp

Do not write wtmp record.

$ sudo poweroff

Powers off the system.

$ sudo poweroff -f

Forces an immediate poweroff. Use with caution.

Create a new user or update default new user information

Send a signal to a process

Shut down or reboot the system

Reboot the system

Halt the system

Format and display the on-line manual pages

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