Keyboard shortcut to stop batch script?

Hello all,
I've written a javascript designed to process a batch of files.
Is there anyway to assign a keystroke to stop the script arbitrarily (ESC doesn't seem to work) while it is running?
For example, as I was watching the script do its thing on hundreds of files, I noticed that the first dozen or so were not what I wanted.
They didn't "fail" per se, I could just tell that the results weren't good... so I didn't want to sit there while the script processed the other 100 files.
But, the only way I could get the script to stop was to Force Quit Illustrator.

If you were to have run the batch script from the ESTK you could use the stop button there. Otherwise I'm not sure there is a way.

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