Unix command to turn OFF Software Update

I've browsed through the networksetup -help and the systemsetup -help files and can't find anything that would allow me to send a unix command that would turn automatic software update off? Anyone got any thoughts?

Send:
softwareupdate --schedule off
and that is indeed a doubled hyphen in front of "schedule".
The command is user specific, so you would have to turn it off for every user on the system. I don't know of a global way to turn it off for all users at once.
Regards.
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