System
poweroff
Shuts down the system.
Ubuntu
CentOS
Debian
Arch
SUSE
Slackware
Alpine
Fedora
Verified: 2025-10-08
Syntax
$poweroff [OPTIONEN]
Examples
$sudo poweroff
$poweroff --help
Typical use cases
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Standard usage
poweroff --help
Note
Equivalent to `shutdown -h now`.
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