macOS: Keyboard-Based Shutdown - via Spotlight

Alfred has a built-in feature to trigger system actions like shutdown, restart or lock directly from its search bar. Spotlight didn’t have this out of the box – now, with the recently revamped Spotlight & with a small AppleScript trick, you can add it yourself.

1. Open the Shortcuts app and create a new shortcut.
2. Add a “Run AppleScript” action and enter the following script:

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tell application "Finder"
    shut down
end tell

3. Give the shortcut a descriptive name (e.g. “Shutdown”).
4. Open Spotlight (Command + Space), type “Shutdown” – done.

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