How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window?

From	Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window?
Date	2016-09-05 13:50 +0200
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The problem occurred when using cp to copy contents of one 
partition to another.
I realized I had miss-specified options. As data was multiple GB 
and target was a USB connected flash drive I wished an immediate 
termination.

Cntl-C had no apparent result.
Closing terminal window apparently did not abort operation - as 
indicated by activity light on flash drive continuing to blink.
Unmounting device worked.

It seems there should be a better option?
TIA

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How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-09-05 13:50 +0200
  Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window? Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2016-09-05 14:30 +0200
    Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-09-05 15:20 +0200
      Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window? Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2016-09-05 15:40 +0200
        Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-09-05 16:10 +0200
          Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window? Charlie Kravetz <cjk@teamcharliesangels.com> - 2016-09-05 17:10 +0200
            Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window? Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2016-09-05 17:20 +0200
              Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window? Dutch Ingraham <stoa@gmx.us> - 2016-09-05 18:20 +0200
                Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window? Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2016-09-05 18:40 +0200
              Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window? Charlie Kravetz <cjk@teamcharliesangels.com> - 2016-09-05 18:30 +0200
                Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window? Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2016-09-05 21:40 +0200

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