Linux – How kill cp in Linux

killlinuxprocess

I see in:

ps aux

that exists process like:

cp  file.txt /home/file.txt

This file is very big.

I try to kill like:

kill -9 12345

12345 is pid. But without success. What else I can do? What the reason?

P.S.
12345 0.0 0.0 7890 704 ? D 14:42 0:05 cp

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Just try CTRL+C in the terminal which cp works in. (I've assumed that you didn't send cp to background, which I don't do often.)

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