Kill Attached Screen in Linux - linux

Question

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.

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

Create screen from Terminal:
screen -S <screen_name>
To see list of screens:
<screen -ls> or <screen -list>
To go to particular screen:
<screen -x screen_name>
<screen -r screen_name>
Inside screen
To Terminate screen:
give ctrl+d screen will get terminated
To Detach screen:
give <ctrl+ad>or <screen -d >screen will get detached
To reattach screen:
screen -x <screen_name> or screen -r <screen_name>
To kill a screen from Terminal:
<screen -X -S screen_name quit>
or
<screen -X -S screen_name kill>
You can use screen_name or process_id to execute commands.

Answer 3

This worked for me very well. Get the screen id via:
screen -r
or
screen -ls
then kill the screen: kill -9 <screenID>
it now becomes a dead screen,
then wipe it out with: screen -wipe

Answer 4

To kill a detached screen use this from the terminal:
screen -X -S "SCEEN_NAME" quit
If you are attached, then use (from the terminal and inside the screen):
exit

Answer 5

From Screen User's Manual ;
screen -d -r "screenName"
Reattach a session and if necessary detach it first

Answer 6

You could create a function to kill all existing sessions. take a look at Kill all detached screen sessions
to list all active sessions use
screen -r
when listed, select with your mouse the session you are interested in and paste it. like this
screen -r

Answer 7

Suppose your screen id has a pattern. Then you can use the following code to kill all the attached screen at once.
result=$(screen -ls | grep 'pattern_of_screen_id' -o)
for i in $result;
do
`screen -X -S $i quit`;
done

Answer 8

i usually don't name my screen instances, so this might not be useful, but did you try screen -r without the 'myscreen' part? usually for me, screen -r will show the PIDs of each screen then i can reattach with screen -d -r <PID>

Answer 9

You can find the process id of the attached running screen.
I found it same as the session id which you can get by command:
screen -ls
And you can use following command to kill that process:
kill [sessionId] or sudo kill [sessionId]

Answer 10

None of the screen commands were killing or reattaching the screen for me. Any screen command would just hang. I found another approach.
Each running screen has a file associated with it in:
/var/run/screen/S-{user_name}
The files in that folder will match the names of the screens when running the screen -list. If you delete the file, it kills the associated running screen (detached or attached).

Answer 11

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Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells. There is a scrollback history buffer for each virtual terminal and a copy-and-paste mechanism that allows the user to move text regions between windows.