Is there a single command for screen to completely close/quit all running programs in detached mode?
I hope to do this in a bash script without any further input.
You can use screen -X to send a command to a running screen, so screen -X quit should ask the session to terminate and kill all of its windows.
If you have multiple screens running, use -S to identify them.
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It is intended to be used in a
bashscript rather than terminal input. I edited the question. – Googlebot May 2 '17 at 23:54 -
@All, I'm not sure what the issue is there,
screen -X quit -S $sessionnamewill still ask a running screen session to quit, regardless of if the command is given from an interactive shell, or a script. Do you mean you have multiple screen sessions running, and want to close them all? – ilkkachu May 3 '17 at 9:53
