Bash – How to skip vim message “Press Enter…” after running bash commands

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After running bash commands(e.g !mv file1 file2) vim outputs result of that command and prints this message:

Press Enter or type command to continue

Is there a way to skip this message and return to vim automatically?

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I don't think you can disable it, but you could use a mapping and append <CR>:

map <F4> :!mv file1 file2<CR><CR>

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Bash – How to cancel the rest of a list of commands in Bash

I've observed that using CtrlZ to shift the program to a background process does the trick.

foo && bar

Thanks to @Arkadiusz Drabczyk for pointing it in comments that foo; bar doesn't give control in the required way.

Then:

^Z

[1]+  Stopped                 foo

The command stops only the first task and

fg %1

This brings only task foo to the foreground and completes the task and exits.

PS: This can be checked with two scripts writing to a file. The first one sleeping for a few seconds to give time to be put back.

I'm lost on why the CtrlZ handles only the command running and leaves the rest. Would love to get to know.

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