How to: Drain Gearman work queue

You can drain a Gearman work queue by dumping its jobs to /dev/null:

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$ /usr/bin/gearman -t 999 -n -w -f $NAME_OF_FUNCTION > /dev/null

Beware that you will need to restart Gearman if you want to stop new jobs from going to /dev/null!