Any way to put OS X to sleep via Terminal?

[CaptSaltyJack]

Just wondering if it's possible to put the machine to sleep via a shell command.

 

[giulio]

You need a shell script:

#!/bin/bash
osascript << EOT
tell application "System Events"
sleep
end
EOT

It's not a one-liner.

 

[CaptSaltyJack]

Very cool. thanks!

 

[kjb]

Use 'pmset' -- Do a 'man pmset' for full options...

So, to put your system to sleep via CLI, in terminal:

-$ pmset sleepnow

This is more straight forward than mucking about with osascript (though I do enjoy discovering more and more and more osascript trickery!).

 

[vansmith]

You're about 8 years late to the conversation.

 

[kjb]

Yea, I hope that is OK -- I don't usually have the opportunity to help, and I realized I could answer this one for "somebody, sometime, hopefully"...

All best to all...

 

[vansmith]

Oh, that's not a problem at all. I just wanted to point that out in case you were hoping that the original poster would find your answer.