Comments on: Reboot Mac OS X from the Command Line

By: Bill Eccles

Bill Eccles — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 20:23:56 +0000

Use “sudo reboot” unless you want a forgotten “-r” option to cause some unintended travel.

Phil — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 21:13:37 +0000

Don’t forget shutdown -h now for halt

Austria — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 18:53:37 +0000

“sudo reboot” does the same

Rick Blythe — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 18:18:09 +0000

Why not just use:

sudo halt

Larry — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 17:10:48 +0000

Or even simply, just substitute “reboot” for “shutdown -r now”; it does exactly the same thing and requires less typing.

klisza — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 17:10:34 +0000

That’s not a trick, that’s rather standard command for UNIX/BSD’s

Will — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:38:52 +0000

Great trick, thanks!

parakeet — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:32:06 +0000

For sysadmins why not use a single command instead of logging in then issuing the command?

ssh user@hostname sudo shutdown -r now “rebooting your Mac”

Then you only have to enter the admin password once.