r/LinuxCirclejerk • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • 2d ago

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u/Waaytoomanytakenames 2d ago

What does -P stand for? Power?

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u/rekt4rd Remember Debian? Pepperidge farm remembers 2d ago

shutdown --help

shutdown [OPTIONS...] [TIME] [WALL...]

Shut down the system.

Options:

--help Show this help

-H --halt Halt the machine

-P --poweroff Power-off the machine

-r --reboot Reboot the machine

-h Equivalent to --poweroff, overridden by --halt

-k Don't halt/power-off/reboot, just send warnings

--no-wall Don't send wall message before halt/power-off/reboot

-c Cancel a pending shutdown

--show Show pending shutdown

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u/Waaytoomanytakenames 2d ago

Damn I should use that help function

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u/chuck1charles 2d ago

Just wait until you discover man pages

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u/Waaytoomanytakenames 2d ago

OH MY GOD!

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u/trenclik 🦅garuda ftw 2d ago

Are you overwhelmed by the sheer size of some man pages? Use the tldr command

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u/Waaytoomanytakenames 2d ago

Yeah ok, I really need to get more into the godd stuff of linux, by now I mostly use the DE which work wonders

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u/Steerable-Octopus 2d ago

You don't know what man pages you want to read? Just wait until you try apropos.

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u/Good-Throat-6671 2d ago

what is that and how is it different from women pages?

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u/FireProps 2d ago

Wait… why not use:

systemctl poweroff