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Ah! I mistakenly thought you were downloading yt-dlp itself which you probably would have started in a browser... sorry.
I have no actual familiarity with yt-dlp but I imagine it would respond to Ctrl-C in the terminal where it is running if all else fails. You might try pressing ESC a few times first, I vaguely recall yt-dl used to respond to that.
If those don't work, open a new terminal and try...
Code:
kill pidof yt-dlp
... but only if you have no other instances of it running.
Otherwise, it looks to be well documented, so begin reading.
After it gets cancelled using that command would any remnants of that video download remain in disk space since it had been downloading?
it depends on two things (at least): how is it implemented and how is it stopped.
see the man page, it has a huge amount of options to configure it.
Using kill -9 will does not allow to do a cleanup, so if you stop your process with it there can be some wasted files somewhere.
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