HALT(8)

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version 1.0.9 · 2 versions
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💖 HALT(8) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to HALT(8), a lil corner of the System Administration Utilities manual, and honestly? it's giving "one job, done slayfully." 💅

✨ NAME ✨

halt — tell Shepherd to stop services and turn off system 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

halt [OPTIONS...]

Halt or power off the system. that's it, that's the whole vibe. one command, bye-bye machine, no cap. 💀

here's the options, and yes, we're listing every single one because we don't skip:

  • -s, --socket=FILE — send commands to FILE. like, that's where your orders go. that's the address. 💌
  • --help — display this help and exit. the classic "help meeee" button. 🙈
  • --usage — display short usage message and exit. the lil mini version, for when you want the TL;DR. ✨
  • --version — display version information and exit. so you know exactly which era of Shepherd you're living in. 👑
heads up bestie, this one's important: Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional to the corresponding short options. so like, if the long one needs a value, the short one needs it too. they match. fr fr. 🎀

🦋 REPORTING BUGS 🦋

found a bug? not the cute kind? 😭 go tell the devs, they wanna know:

Copyright © 2025 the Shepherd authors License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

NO WARRANTY is in all caps in the original and it stays in all caps here, because it is that serious. take the free software, love it, remix it, but don't come for the authors when it does a thing. 💀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

alsooo, the full documentation for halt is maintained as a Texinfo manual. if the info and halt programs are properly installed at your site, this command:

info shepherd

should give you access to the complete manual. go read it, it's lowkey iconic. 📖✨

and that's the whole page, bestie! this one came from GNU, dated February 2026, and it's page HALT(8) of the manual. mwah, go turn off a computer responsibly. 🎀💖🦋

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