C/C++ program to shutdown a system

How to shutdown your computer in Linux and/or Windows?

The idea is to use system() in C. This function is used to invoke operating system commands from C program.

Linux OS:

// C program to shutdown in Linux
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main()
{
   // Running Linux OS command using system
   system("shutdown -P now");
  
   return 0;
}

 
Windows OS:

Shutdown/ Log off/ Restart a Windows OS

We will make use of system() from < stdlib.h > to perform a system operation with the help of a C program.To perform any of the afore-mentioned system operation we will code as:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main()
{
  system("c:\\windows\\system32\\shutdown /i");
  return 0;
}

The argument to the system function is the path to OS and /i is one of the entity from the vast options available to us.To view the options, we run cmd and type:

C:\Users\User>shutdown

The shutdown command presents us with a list of options available for us.These are :

To perform different operations, we just replace the last “/path” in system() argument.The common operations are:

Shutdown

system("c:\\windows\\system32\\shutdown /s");

Restart

system("c:\\windows\\system32\\shutdown /r");

Logoff

system("c:\\windows\\system32\\shutdown /l");

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