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Automatically shut down Linux after a download

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Sometimes you want to download something but don't want to wait until it finishes so you can shut down the computer. In this case you can use Sentinella.

Or, as an anonymous commenter points out, you don't even need Sentinella:
The following advice assumes you already have 'wget' installed:
1. Open a terminal
2. $ wget ; sudo halt
 read more | score:7588 | -falko, April 27, 2011
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