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  • thanks, yeah I see now I had the ampersand in the wrong place. I see now that when at the end it works ./youtube-dl url 1>>a.a 2>>b.b & does it, And needed to redirect output ''cios it spits out a lot especially to stdout, moreso than to stderr. so both redirections are good.
    – barlop
    Commented May 27, 2022 at 17:55
  • also, a fork of youtube-dl, called yt-dlp,, is better. - faster and more frequently updated.
    – barlop
    Commented May 27, 2022 at 17:56