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There are certain programs that I always run that interrupt the shutdown process. When I try to shut down my laptop a message pops up saying that a program interrupted the shutdown process, but when I check the program it is already shut down. These programs probably just take a little longer to shut down. Is there a good way to shut down OSX without having to deal with these interruptions?

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You can use sudo shutdown -h now in you terminal. The shutdown program sends the SIGTERM and after some time SIGKILL interrupts to all running programs. So shutdown should not be interrupted.

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a quick shutdown shortcut is pressing the "control" + "option" + "command" + "eject" buttons simultaneously.

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sudo shutdown -h now

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