Kill Attached Screen in Linux

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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

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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  lt PID gt

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Create screen from Terminal   screen -S  lt screen name gt    To see list of screens    lt screen -ls gt  or  lt screen -list gt    To go to particular screen    lt screen -x screen name gt    lt screen -r screen name gt    Inside screen    To Terminate screen   give ctrl d screen will get terminated   To Detach screen    give  lt ctrl ad gt or  lt screen -d  gt screen will get detached   To reattach screen   screen -x  lt screen name gt  or screen -r  lt screen name gt    To kill a screen from Terminal    lt screen -X -S screen name quit gt     or    lt screen -X -S screen name kill gt    You can use screen name or process id to execute commands

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

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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

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For result find  Click Here   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

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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

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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

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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

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This worked for me very well  Get the screen id via   screen -r   or  screen -ls   then kill the screen  kill -9  lt screenID gt  it now becomes a dead screen  then wipe it out with  screen -wipe

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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

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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

[linux] Kill Attached Screen in Linux

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