How to shutdown raspberry pi over ssh

Question

I am accessing my raspberry pi 3 from ssh. Can you tell me how to shut it down from ssh. Whenever I use sudo shutdown -h now the terminal just freezes without any output. If I kill the terminal I can ssh into raspberry again showing it did not shut down.

Answer 1

Add the -P flag:

sudo shutdown -h -P now

Answer 2

sudo shutdown -h now or sudo halt

You can’t use shutdown (or halt) unless you have sudo privileges.

-h instructs to halt the system, now means to run command right now. You can add a number X to tell it to shut down in X minutes. It also allows a specific time in this format XX:XX (note this is in 24 hour format seperated by a : colon).