poweroff

Power off the system. More information: <https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/poweroff.8.html>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/poweroff.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install sysvinit
Ubuntu
apt-get install upstart-sysv
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S systemd-sysvcompat
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install runit-init
CentOS
yum install usermode
Fedora
dnf install systemd
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install upstart-sysv
Raspbian
apt-get install upstart
Dockerfile
dockerfile.run/poweroff

Power off the system. More information: <https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/poweroff.8.html>.

  • Power off the system:
    poweroff
  • Halt the system (same as `halt`):
    poweroff --halt
  • Reboot the system (same as `reboot`):
    poweroff --reboot
  • Shut down immediately without contacting the system manager:
    poweroff --force --force
  • Write the wtmp shutdown entry without shutting down the system:
    poweroff --wtmp-only

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