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I upload youtube videos over night using a computer running Ubuntu 11.10 as it really eats my bandwidth. But it's normally done when I'm not around, so it wastes quite a bit of energy leaving it running. Is there any way for me to make it shut down after it's finished?

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Instead of using a browser, you can have a look at uploading via a script - you can then create another script which invokes the Youtube Uploader script and then calls the

sudo shutdown -h now


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You should rather run the whole script as root. If you place a sudo command in the script, it will ask you probably for your password after uploading the video. –  lumbric Feb 21 '12 at 14:41
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