Kill all detached screen sessions

Question

When I execute screen -ls, I see the following. How can I kill all the detached sessions?

There are screens on:

    84918.tty         


        

Answer 1

Here's a solution that combines all the answers: Add this to your .bashrc or .bash_profile:

killscreens () {
    screen -ls | grep Detached | cut -d. -f1 | awk '{print $1}' | xargs kill
}

• this is a convenient function, easy to remember
• kills only the detached screens, to stop you from doing something dumb
• remember to open a new bash terminal or run source .bashrc to make killscreens available

Thanks to @Rose Perrone, @Milind Shah, and @schatten