in reply to Can I stop a backtick command but continue the script?

If you hit CTRL^C during playback, what happens?

My first thought is that if CTRL^C doesn't work (or exits the whole program) - you would want to handle the signal. See Signals.

If you want another option, you may want to fork and exec a child, then wait and listen for a certain key to kill the child.

Just a couple of thoughts, I'm sure there are many many others.
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