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Swinzon
Asked: 2015-01-29 01:13:20 +0800 CST

Timer to shutdown [duplicate]

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I just installed Ubuntu 14.04 on my Intel NUC DN2820. And almost every night as I lie down to sleep I listen to music, and my NUC shuts down (On Windows). On Windows it has the easiest command ever in CMD: Shutdown -s -t 1000.

That doesn't work on Ubuntu I figured out, but I found this command: Sudo shutdown 18:45, for those who don't know, 18:45 is an example when the system will shut down.

I tried this in terminal: Sudo shutdown 01:00 and I got a message in terminal '' E:/ can`t find the command'' The E: drive is my external drive, and C: is my SSD, what can I do to get it to shut down?

Thanks :)

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    The correct command would be sudo shutdown -h 23:45 - without the -h or -r switch it isn't a valid command (there are others - see man page).

    Using +9 instead of the time gives you any easy way to say 'in 9 minutes'.

    Any reference to E:/ tells us that there is some reference to a windows command going on here as linux has no E:/ which is partly why there are comments as to what you really typed, above - please copy/paste commands, don't re-type them!

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  2. sudo shutdown -h +30 will let the system power off after 30 minutes.

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