Reference

reboot(8)

Halt, power-off or reboot the machine

NAME

reboot, halt, poweroff, shutdown - Halt, power-off or reboot the machine

SYNOPSIS

reboot [OPTIONS]

halt [OPTIONS]

poweroff [OPTIONS]

shutdown [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

reboot, halt, poweroff, shutdown may be used to halt, power-off, or reboot the machine. All four commands take the same options.

OPTIONS

-h, --help

This help text

-f, --force

Force unsafe reboot now, do not contact the init system.

--halt

Halt system, regardless of how the command is called.

-p, --poweroff

Power-off system, regardless of how the command is called.

--reboot

Reboot system, regardless of how the command is called.

AUTHOR

reboot is written by Claudio Matsuoka ⟨cmatsuoka@\:gmail.com⟩ and Joachim Nilsson ⟨troglobit@\:gmail.com⟩.

This manual page was written by Yangfl ⟨mmyangfl@\:gmail.com⟩ for the Debian Project (and may be used by others).

History

--force since Debian 11 (Bullseye); --halt since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --help since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --poweroff since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --reboot since Debian 12 (Bookworm); -f since Debian 11 (Bullseye); -h since Debian 12 (Bookworm); -p since Debian 12 (Bookworm).

--no-sync until Debian 9 (Stretch); --no-wall until Debian 9 (Stretch); --no-wtmp until Debian 9 (Stretch); --verbose until Debian 8 (Jessie); --wtmp-only until Debian 11 (Bullseye); -d until Debian 9 (Stretch); -i until Debian 5.0 (Lenny); -n until Debian 9 (Stretch); -r until Debian 11 (Bullseye); -w until Debian 11 (Bullseye).