What question has not been answered yet? The answer to the question in the thread title is a hard NO. You cannot bypass your vpn from terminal.

By your answer that would mean this would go thru the vpn too?

Of course. How many times do you need to be told the same thing?

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One other thing, Nordvpn in particular requires ipv6 not be used/configured.

I guess nordvpn service I have is ipv4 only.

It would not be any good if my system were to use ipv6 dns and dhcp go past or just be wasted cpu cycles, imo.

I use openvpn to launch the config as well.

No. The 'ip' command also shows routing. Use 'man ip' to see what all that command may do for you.
In fact neither of those commands will tell you anything about the connection path used by the apps you seem concerned about. Only the IP addresses used with those apps & commands will allow answering your routing questions.

The routing table will answer that.
The routing table will answer that.

The full output of the 'route' command as requested several times above will allow answering all the these questions

Sometimes a tunnel (depending upon the vpn) may get 100% of the traffic. Sometimes it may be a split routing and only some goes thru the tunnel and some uses the normal routing. The full routing info from the route command allows us to answer that.

There are always 2 routing points. The PC has its own internal routing table which is why the 'route' command exists and its data is important. The second routing point is the router on the LAN which is the normal gateway to the internet (or maybe a corporate WAN). The only exception to this I know of is when there is no gateway router and the PC is directly connected to the ISP network or internet which is very rare.

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Absolutely not.
His routing table is for his own PC and his LAN and of course would not show YOUR VPN DATA.

I do not understand why when at least 2 others have shown you their full routing tables from their PC you would still be so reluctant to provide the one NECESSARY bit of information needed so we may hold an intelligent discussion about your original question. Almost 40 back and forth comments, most asking for the necessary info needed for us to answer you, and you still refuse.

We cannot help if you do not give us the information needed to properly answer.

We cannot even tell if your situation is split routing or vpn only.

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What would be the advantage for Nordvpn and their customersto use ipv6 overipv4?

Why not use their software client for linux?

Any results from the above command that that start with 10 (ten) e.g.
(above) Will mean that they are local ip addresses and can not identify your isp provider, is that correct?

Any that starts with something like this:
(above) are considered public ip addresses and can be used to identify your location,is that right?

To be honest, I don't know exactly.

Perhaps they have bulk licence on the ipv4 network they use, maybe reduced bandwidth?

Openvpn has the nordvpn blob copied to its config. I haven't tried any other way.

The tutorial I followed helped me set up the vpn, /etc/sysctl.conf and the firewall.

All the best.

My vpn provider also provides openvpn config file; I use that cuz it doesn't require installing anything nonfree etc, just uses stuff from my distro, and I just check the box to "use vpn with this connection" so it connects automatically.

I guess the advantage of not using some software provided by vpn provider may just that - their software maybe proprietary and you can't audit it? Whereas openvpn plugins for network manager gui is provided by your distro...

If there is an advantage to using their software, they'd have to tell you, dunno what it could be....

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I am trying to connect to youtube.com thru the terminal like this belowand in the future to my distro's repo via command line (but not at the moment)