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Case: Session lists as attached but cannot be resumed.

Solution: Resume it on the current terminal after detaching it from the original, unavailable terminal.

screen -d -r [pid]

Case: Kill one screen session

screen -X -S [pid] quit

OR

screen -S [sessionname] -p 0 -X quit

OR

Resume screen session if not already in it

screen -r control-a, :quit

Case: In macOS, terminate and kill all active sessions

screen -X quit

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