youtube-dl runs by default in the background: bug or feature?

[giacecco]

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I have not been using youtube-dl for a while. I got back to it today - on MacOS 10.14, v 2018.10.05 installed through Homebrew - and realised that now it always executes in the background, as if I was adding & to the end of the command line. Is that by design? Is there a way to run in the foreground as in the old days? Thanks.

[dstftw]

It does not run in background by default.

[giacecco]

Happy to know you haven't changed the script's behaviour, but have you got any idea of what could be happening in my case then? youtube-dl is the only script behaving this way.