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SHUTDOWN(8)							   SHUTDOWN(8)

NAME
       shutdown - bring the system down.

SYNOPSIS
       shutdown [options] TIME

DESCRIPTION
       shutdown brings the system down in a safe way.

       TIME  may  have	different  formats, the most common is simply the word
       'now' which will bring the system down immediately.  Other  valid  for‐
       mats  are  +m,  where m is the number of minutes to wait until shutting
       down and hh:mm which specifies the time on the  24hr  clock.  A	single
       number will be treated as the number of seconds before shutting down.

OPTIONS
       -f, --force
	      Forces the execution. This can cause applications to lose data.

       -h, --halt
	      The  system  will	 shutdown  and	power off. This is the default
	      action. The system must support the power-off feature, but  most
	      systems do.

       -s, --shutdown
	      Same as --halt. Here for compatibility with the Windows shutdown
	      command line tool.

       -r, --reboot
	      The system will shutdown and then restart.

       -b, --hibernate
	      The system will suspend to disk. The  system  must  support  the
	      hibernate feature.

       -p, --suspend
	      The  system  will suspend to RAM. This is also known as sleep or
	      standby. The system must support the suspend feature.

       -c, --cancel
	      Aborts the execution of formerly started shutdown or reboot.

       -a, --abort
	      Same as --cancel. Here for compatibility with the Windows	 shut‐
	      down command line tool.

       -x, --exitex
	      Use ExitWindowsEx rather than InitiateSystemShutdownEx.

       --help Display a help text and exit.

       --version
	      Display version information and exit.

AUTHORS
       shutdown was written by Corinna Vinschen and Frank Fesevur.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright  2005-2013  Corinna  Vinschen, Frank Fesevur. License GPLv3+:
       GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.

       This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There  is
       NO  warranty;  not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
       PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO
       reboot(8)

REPORTING BUGS
       Please send bug reports to ⟨cygwin@cygwin.com⟩

				   June 2013			   SHUTDOWN(8)

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