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Shutdown

Base/usr/share/man/man1/shutdown.md

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Name

shutdown - Power off the machine

Synopsis

**sh
$ shutdown

Description

shutdown instructs the kernel to power off the machine immediately.

Notes

The shutdown utility opens the /sys/kernel/power_state node and writes the magic value "2" to instruct the kernel to power off the machine.