second question, aborting an active download not shutting the terminal down: neither ctrl+z nor ctrl+q work and opening htop to kill the process seems overkill. What I now do is to simply shut the active tab, but there must be a faster way.
Ctrl+C.
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neither ctrl+z nor ctrl+q work
Ctrl + z will send the task to the background. You can use jobs to see all active background work. Fg will bring background work to the foreground. Ctrl + q is not a valid shortcut as far as I know. Looks a bit like a mac thing (command + q).
It's been a while, but ^S suspends output to the terminal and ^Q resumes, I think. I don't know if it's really supported in the modern era.
thank you for pointing that out, corrected.
what happens on my computer: on a terminal, I press ctrl+c but the process keeps working, yt-dlp keeps downloading. As said, the only way to stop it is to shut the tab down (or htop and kill)