Kill detached screen session

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I learned from somewhere a detached screen can be killed by  screen -X -S  session   you want to kill  kill   where  session   you want to kill  can be gotten from  screen -ls   But this doesn t work  Anything wrong  What s the correct way

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Alternatively  while in your screen session all you have to do is type exit  This will kill the shell session initiated by the screen  which effectively terminates the screen session you are on   No need to bother with screen session id  etc

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To kill all detached screen sessions  include this function in your  bash profile   killd      for session in   screen -ls   grep -o   0-9   5     do screen -S    session   -X quit  done     to run it  call killd

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You can just go to the place where the screen session is housed and run    screen -ls   which results in    There is a screen on           26727 pts-0 devxxx       Attached   1 Socket in  tmp uscreens S-xxx   lt ------ this is where the session is    And just remove it    cd  tmp uscreens S-xxx ls 26727 pts-0 devxxx rm 26727 pts-0 devxxx ls   The uscreens directory will not have the 26727 pts-0 devxxx file in it anymore  Now to make sure just type this   screen -ls  and you should get      No Sockets found in  tmp uscreens S-xxx

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You can kill a detached session which is not responding within the screen session by doing the following    Type screen -list to identify the detached screen session       screen -list       There are screens on             20751 Melvin Peter V42   Detached      Note  20751 Melvin Peter V42 is your session id  Get attached to the detached screen session  screen -r 20751 Melvin Peter V42 Once connected to the session press Ctrl   A then type  quit

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ISSUE THIS COMMAND  xxx devxxx     screen -ls      SCREEN RESPONDS There are screens on          23487 pts-0 devxxx       Detached          26727 pts-0 devxxx       Attached  2 Sockets in  tmp uscreens S-xxx       NOW KILL THE ONE YOU DONT WANT  xxx devxxx     screen -X -S 23487 pts-0 devxxx kill      WANT PROOF   xxx devxxx     screen -ls There is a screen on          26727 pts-0 devxxx       Attached  1 Socket in  tmp uscreens S-xxx

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For me a simple  exit   works   This is from within the screen session

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List screens   screen -list   Output   There is a screen on  23536 pts-0 wdzee        10 04 2012 08 40 45 AM          Detached  1 Socket in  var run screen S-root    Kill screen session   screen -S 23536 -X quit

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add this to your    bashrc   alias cleanscreen  screen -ls   tail -n  2   head -n -2   awk   print  1    xargs -I   screen -S    -X quit    Then use cleanscreen to clean all screen session

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kill  will only kill one screen window  To  kill  the complete session  use quit   Example    screen -X -S  session   you want to kill  quit   For dead sessions use        screen -wipe

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It s easier to kill a session  when some meaningful name is given     Creation  screen -S some name proc    Kill detached session screen -S some name -X quit

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screen -wipe   Should clean all dead screen sessions

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