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Restart then shutdown using bash scripting?

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I want to restart and then shutdown from terminal. Means that we want to startup terminal after restart and then shutdown automatically.

What I am doing with explanation:

Manually start my pc

Run terminal manually

After working on some program for some x minutes

Then the program would ask for restart

This restart would be done from terminal manually

Then after restart again terminal would startup automatically

Terminal would delay shutdown for some x minutes then automatically shutdown

conclusion point 6: only after restart terminal would execute some script automatically which would run for some y minutes then pc would automatically shutdown

How to start up automatically after boot?

Terminal automatically

Some script in the terminal that automatically shuts the pc down.

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answered 2 Years ago egantfis · Accepted Answer

to restart from terminal

shutdown -r now

to shutdown from terminal

shutdown -h now

to add commands at login, put them in the file ~/.bash_login

If you add a shutdown command to a login file your computer will immediately shutdown after login... always. This is not very productive I guess.
What you could do in some situations is to delay the shutdown by a few minutes in order to be able to cancel the login-shutdown when needed. In that case add to ~/.bash_login the following command

shutdown -h 1

if you don't want the computer to shutdown a minute after login you should think about typing

shutdown -c

in a terminal...

I don't know what you want to do exactly but this sounds like a clumsy way to deal with shutdowns and restart, it could get annoying I guess.