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power off the displays (See related posts)

this really powers off the displays, unlike other solutions which just put them to the dimmest setting
#!/bin/sh
  
MAGIC_NUMBER=107374183
PMSET=/usr/bin/pmset
GREP=/usr/bin/grep
AWK=/usr/bin/awk
SLEEP=/bin/sleep
    
$PMSET force -a displaysleep $MAGIC_NUMBER
$SLEEP 1
$PMSET force -a displaysleep `$PMSET -g | $GREP displaysleep | $AWK '{print $2}'`
$SLEEP 1
to shell osx cli terminal by jarjar on Fri May 25 01:43:41 +0000 2007

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Araxia posts on May 29, 2007 at 17:36
This is awesome. I have been wanting to be able to do this for ages. How did you find this magic number?

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