Shutdown Command For Mac

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Shutdown Command For Mac

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Terminal is one of the most powerful macOS apps, which allows you to perform actions with different commands. Although Terminal Commands are seemingly difficult to carry out, believe me, they aren’t. Once you know the commands, you can quickly perform tasks like shutting down your Mac or copying contents from one place to another right from your terminal

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Users must be assigned the Shut down the system user right to shut down a local or remotely administered computer that is using the shutdown command. Users must be members of the Administrators group to annotate an unexpected shutdown of a local or remotely administered computer. Sometimes you just need to reboot or shut down right away-and we mean right away, with no waiting. Thankfully, whether your Mac is frozen and non-responsive or you just want to shut down and go.

As the terminal is a CLI (Command Line Interface), the language we type in which interacts with the Mac, is known as bash, and commands are called bash commands. This tool is often overlooked because it is completely different from the GUI (Graphical User Interface ), which provides a rich interface. But today I’ve come up with a useful list of macOS Terminal Commands that you can learn easily and will help you do things instantly. So let’s start.

11 Cool Terminal Commands for macOS – Mac User Should Try

#1. Hide/Unhide and View Files/Folders in Finder

macOS Terminal provides you an easy way to Hide, Unhide or View hidden files in the Finder via Terminal.

Open up the terminal from /Applications/finder or alternatively launch it from Spotlight.

To Hide any File/Folder:

Type in the following command :

Now, drag the file which you want to hide in the terminal and click Enter.

To View Hidden File/Folder:

Type defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool TRUE in the Terminal.

Once done you need to restart the Finder, it can be done by this command.

If you ever wish to hide the sensitive files again, repeat all the commands by replacing TRUE with FALSE.

To Unhide any File/Folder:

Unhiding the file/folder is fairly easy, just replace “hidden” with “nohidden”.

Now, drag the file/folder which you want to unhide.

#2. Download Files Using Terminal

If you’ve a direct link of the file which you want to download, you can use the following commands to download the file using the Terminal on Mac.

Note: If you want to download the contents to any other directory replace “downloads” with the directory name.

#3. Keep your Mac Awake

To prevent the mac from sleep, or showing screensaver after some inactivity use

If you want this command to get auto-disabled after a certain period of time, put the -t flag and specify the time in seconds as shown below.

Here, after 150000 seconds the command will get disabled, and the settings will be restored. Meanwhile, you can also use Cmd + C to terminate the command.

#4. Change Default Screenshot Format Type

By default, the screenshots are saved in .PNG format, but you can gain full control over the screenshots behavior.

To change default screenshot format type, use defaults write com.apple.screencapture type followed by type for e.g. : ( PNG, JPG, GIF, or PDF), then press Enter.

#5. Access iCloud Drive Using Terminal

To access the data from your iCloud Drive use the following command.

However, we already have a detailed guide on how you can access, copy, or move data to your iCloud Drive, which you can check out anytime.

#6. Shut Down or Restart Mac using Terminal

To shut down your mac with CLI (Command Line Interface) aka Terminal, use

Just as shut down, you can restart your Mac by

#7. View File Contents

To access the contents of any damaged or corrupted file, you can force the terminal to open it with this command.

Note: If you try to open an image file in the terminal, it will show some gibberish text.

#8. Speed Up Time Machine Backup

Whenever you’re updating the Mac to the new version, backup’s are assurity of your data and the easiest way to take a backup is to use Time Machine. But do you know? You can speed up time machine backup using the terminal by this command

#9. Add Spaces to your Dock

If you feel, your dock is crowded with a lot of apps. You can add up a little space between each app icon, here’s how.

Type:

and hit Return.

Once done, type:

and press Return again

#10. Copy Contents from One Folder to Another

Copying contents from one place to another is fairly easy with Terminal, Type in the following command

Replace original with the current directory, and new with the name of the directory to which you want to copy the contents.

#11. Make your Mac Say Anything you want

This is the coolest command that macOS provides, you can make your Mac say anything you want, by using the say command followed by the words.

say “hello, iGeeksblog”

Wrapping Up…

There are lots of bash commands available for macOS. However, these were some of them. Do give them a try, and make more out of your Mac.

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Which command did you like the most? Share your views in the comment section.

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More often everyone shutdown there computer simply by clicking on Power button but few people use a command prompt to shut down their computer. Command prompt provides lot more feature along with shutting down option. Some of these are Restart, Log Off, Set a display message if exceeds time limit and lot more. Here we are going to discuss some of these options that how to perform them using the command prompt.

You can perform this on Windows 7/8/10.

How to Shutdown Computer using cmd

Open the command prompt by typing windows key+ R (write cmd and press enter).
Enter the below command and then press Enter key.

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How to Restart PC using the command prompt

Again open cmd as done above. Enter the below command and press Enter key. This will restart your computer.

Logging Off current user cmd

In the command prompt, enter the below command to log off the current user.

Display text message before Shut down PC

To show a display message as a reason to shut down your computer enter below command. This often we require when some other work or restricted time limit is there. You can write any message inside the quotation. Here 100 is time (in seconds).

Shut down Remote PC

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For this, you must have administrative access to that PC that you want to shut down. If you don’t have administrative access then you can not be able to access that PC from your PC. Type the below command and press enter. Replace target PC name here with your target PC name.

Shut down your PC without any warning or notification

If you want to shut down your computer without any prior warning, enter below command and press enter.