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Kill Attached Screen in Linux


I created a screen "myscreen" in linux and it stopped responding abruptly. I closed the terminal and tried to reopen it. "screen -ls" shows that the screen is Attached. I tried the following commands but nothing responds.

screen -r myscreen
screen -D myscreen
screen -D -RR myscreen
screen -X -S myscreen quit

Any help to reattach to the screen or to kill the screen is very much appreciated.


Solution

  • screen -X -S SCREENID kill
    

    alternatively, you can use the following command

    screen -S SCREENNAME -p 0 -X quit
    

    You can view the list of the screen sessions by executing screen -ls