Kill detached screen session

Question

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?

user_278417 · Answer

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