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How to shutdown and restart macOS from the Terminal

Nov 29, 2021 · 1 min read · Post a comment

As a DevOps engineers, we must get used to running commands from the Terminal. Let’s see how easy and fast we can shutdown and restart a macOS machine after long day of work.

Prerequisites

  • macOS shell environment
  • sudo privileges

Solutions

Shutdown a macOS machine

Open Terminal and run the following command:

sudo shutdown -h now 

or, if you want to shut it down after 15 minutes, use the following command instead:

sudo shutdown -h +15

Restart a macOS machine

Open Terminal and run the following command:

sudo shutdown -r now

You could add minutes or hours when restarting the machine too. For instance:

sudo shutdown -r +60

Conclusion

TL;DR a single command shutdown that takes parameters: -h for shutdown, -r for restart and -s for sleep. Feel free to leave a comment below and if you find this tutorial useful, follow our official channel on Telegram.