How do I cancel yt-dlp in progress?

I changed my mind about downloading and it's downloading in front of my eyes, how do I stop it with terminal commands? Thanks in advance.

Originally Posted by linux-man I changed my mind about downloading and it's downloading in front of my eyes, how do I stop it with terminal commands? Thanks in advance.

How did you start it?

Originally Posted by astrogeek How did you start it?

With

$yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...................

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...

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.

You can cancel a CLI command by hitting CTRL+c.

Originally Posted by frankbell You can cancel a CLI command by hitting CTRL+c.

After it gets cancelled using that command would any remnants of that video download remain in disk space since it had been downloading?

Originally Posted by linux-man 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.

Originally Posted by linux-man After it gets cancelled using that command would any remnants of that video download remain in disk space since it had been downloading?

Yes. You'll find it wherever you downloaded to with the file type "partially downloaded".