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by Aethaeryn 5126 days ago 

  > I am not entirely certain how to shut off an OS X computer either.
Open up the terminal and type:

    sudo halt
(NOTE: In Linux, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD, the man pages state that 'halt -p' should be used for a power off, but the OS X man page states that it's just 'halt' with no -p tag available.)
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tikhonj 5126 days ago
Yes, that would work. That's actually how I sometimes shut down my Linux machine, although it doesn't even require sudo.

I was talking from the UI/mouse-driven perspective. I'm not entirely sure where the shutdown option/menu on OS X is. Of course, I regularly don't use macs, so it shouldn't be a surprise--it's not like I have a computer which I just don't know how to shut down!

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mproud 5125 days ago
 → Shutdown…

Or, press the power button once, get a restart/sleep/cancel/shutdown dialog (shortcuts: r/s/esc/return)

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