Shutdown Your Computer with Coding
[ C Programming ]
In this article, we will discuss how to shut down your Pc or laptop with C programing language.C programming language is easy to learn, and everyone should code easily.
1.Linux/Ubuntu
- To follow the code will shut down your PC running either in Ubuntu Operating System or Linux Operation System.
- To shut down your PC (for Linux clients), you should be signed in as root client for the above program to execute, else you will get the message shutdown.
Program
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
{
system(“shutdown -P now”);
return 0;
}
Explanation:
shutdown: Presently indicates that you need to shut down immediately.
-P: Represent indicates that you need to power off your machine or computer.
You can determine minutes as shutdown – P “number of minutes”
2.Windows
- To follow the code will shutdown your Pc running on Windows operating system.
- To shut down your computer using the C program, You’ll need to call the system() function which will call the cmd.
- stdlib.h contain the system() function and it is used to run any executable file.
Program
#include<stdio.h>
#include<conio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
void main()
{
char c;
printf(“Do you want to shutdown your PC/Computer (y/n) : “);
scanf(“%c”,&c);
if(c==’y’ || c==’Y’)
system(“C:\Windows\System32\shutdown /s /t 0”);
else
printf(“You don’t wanna shut down your PC/Computer”);
getch();
}
Explanation
/s: It represents shutdown.
/t: represents Time means after how much time you want to shut down your computer. If you will not define the time /t, It will take default time 30 sec after shut down your pc.
Note: Save the file with .c extension.
