Comments on: Put OS X to sleep via command-line

By: Nicolas B.

Nicolas B. — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 00:13:38 +0000

No. This command does not work. The â â are wrong.

mynameistechno — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 03:44:24 +0000

Actually, if you exit your remote session immediately it will. E.g. This just worked for me via ssh:

pmset sleepnow && exit

lars — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 21:42:43 +0000

thanks justin! exactly what I was searching for ;)

justin — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 01:44:54 +0000

note that if you are remotely logged in, it won’t sleep with this or any command.

To see the reason it won’t sleep run
pmset -g assertions

then look if NetworkClientActive is “1” (or any of the other reasons).

so to do it remotely you could do
nohup /bin/sh -c ‘/bin/sleep 10 && pmset sleepnow’ &
then logout inside 10 seconds.

Mike Ma — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 02:26:13 +0000

Looks like I found the solution. For instance:
sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 1 force
pmset sleepnow

Parameter force changes settings without saving it on to the disk. So, next time hibernatemode will be the previous one.

Mike Ma — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 01:56:24 +0000

More interesting if somebody knows how to hibernate computer without changing hibernate mode?

Mike Ma — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 01:53:03 +0000

you also can use
pmset sleepnow

Florent Delannoy — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 06:36:00 +0000

Awesome, thanks!

Rich — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 06:23:03 +0000

“osascript -e ‘tell application “System Events” to sleep’ ” also works for Leopard.

Rich — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 06:20:28 +0000

“pmset sleepnow”
Works great for Leopard as well.