Put mac to sleep from commandline

randolf balasus - 18 August 2007

Hello, I want put my apple into the suspend to ram state over the commandline interface. Anybody lnows how to do that?

For instance the computer is playing music and after two hours all applications should stop and the computer should shutdown. Til now I am using
# sleep 120m ; shutdown -h now

that is working fine but it is not required that the computer completely goes down.

thanks Randolf Balasus
Randy Adamczyk - 18 August 2007

i don't know the proper unix command to do this, but i use this as a workaround:

download this little sleep automator action [1] and in automator create a script with it. save it as "application", and you'll be able to execute it from the command line with the "open" command.

so long,
randy
Randy Adamczyk - 18 August 2007

On 2007-08-18 15:42:49 +0200, Randy Adamczyk said:

download this little sleep automator action [1]

sorry, forgot to paste the link:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/automator/sleep.html

randy
randolf balasus - 19 August 2007

Thanks this works very well !!!!! that was exaactly what I need. Greetings Randolf Balasus
Calum - 19 August 2007

FWIW, if you still want to do it from the command line, here's one solution: http://www.majid.info/mylos/weblog/2003/12/05-1.html

Power Manager - automation and energy saving software for Mac OS X

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