If you want to Restart your Mac (macOS) device using the Terminal command then you can make use of the shutdown command.
In order to restart Mac using Terminal command:- Open Terminal Application, either using spotlight search by pressing Command + Space and typing Terminal,
- Now type the command:
sudo shutdown -r now
- The above command will ask you to enter password for the current user logged in.
- Once you enter the password your Mac will get rebooted.

Restart Mac using terminal shutdown command
Note: If you want to shut down your Macbook instead of restarting you can use the command sudo shutdown -h now
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