Restarting and shutting down a computer remotely is a frequent task for remote system administrators. As someone that writes many shell scripts, I also find myself automating system restarts. Let’s look at a few ways to restart Mac systems from command line!

Restart a Local MacTo restart a local Mac system from command line, you can execute:

sudo shutdown -r now Restart a Remote MacTo restart a remote Mac system, you can execute:

ssh -l {AdminSystemAddress}sudo shutdown -r now Restart at a Specific TimeYou can specify a restart at a specific time:

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Format: sudo shutdown -r hhmm# Restart at 11:30pm local timesudo shutdown -r 2330

``` System restarts are good after massive updates or just for clearing out system resources. These command line examples should help restart a Mac locally or remotely.

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