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OS X - Turn off sleep from the command line
Published: 03-06-2013 | Author: Remy van Elst | Text only version of this article
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This little snippet turns off Sleep on an OS X machine, either iMac or Macbook. Normally when a Mac is not used it goes in sleep mode, this turns that off.
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To turn off sleep mode:
systemsetup -setsleep Off
Or to set an other time (5 minutes for example):
systemsetup -setsleep 5