How to stop running download process by CURL?

Question

I forgot to use > filename after curl operation.

linux console is giving contiguously garbage data(hopefully downloading and displaying the content on console).

How can we stop this process (ctrl-c s not working)?

getting continous output like this:

ÎþH2ݾà#qsý¼°-sáGâvâzì#éì¼ÄúÁN\t1à }$ZXGcô°

executed following

curl http://example.com/file.tgz

Instead of

curl http://example.com/file.tgz > mongo.tgz

Answer 1

Just press Ctrl-C to abort the currently running process – in that case, curl spitting out data to stdout rather than a file.

If your terminal is still showing messed up symbols, clear it with Ctrl-L or entering clear.