Suspend, Hibernate, Shutdown, And Restart Your Linux System From The Command Line

Posted By Weston Ganger

Sometimes I find it handy to perform power actions from the command line or after running a script.

Its pretty simple

dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest="org.freedesktop.UPower" /org/freedesktop/UPower org.freedesktop.UPower.Suspend