Kill Attached Screen in Linux

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>

<screen -X -S screen_name kill>

You can use screen_name or process_id to execute commands.

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

This worked for me very well. Get the screen id via:

screen -r

screen -ls

then kill the screen: kill -9 <screenID> it now becomes a dead screen, then wipe it out with: screen -wipe

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