5 Linux commands to shutdown reboot restart the system

On Linux, like all tasks, the shutdown and restart operations can also be done from the terminal/console. The commands are shutdown, halt, poweroff, reboot and REISUB keystrokes.

In this post I am going to show you how to shutdown or restart a linux system using these commands. The commands are useful specially when you have to reboot a remote linux server, where only shell access is available and no gui. Servers often need a restart when upgrades are installed or need to shutdown for other maintainance tasks.

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5 Linux commands to shutdown/reboot/restart the system