Automatically shut down computer after downloading files - Linux command
To download files, we can simply use wget
command.
Also to shut down computer we can use halt
command.
Now to automatically shut down our computer after downloading the files we can use combination of both.
wget UrlOfTheFileYouWantToDownload && sudo halt
The above commands will only shut down the computer if wget
returns successfully.
wget UrlOfTheFileYouWantToDownload ; sudo halt
This command will run halt whether wget returns successfully or fails.
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