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    this is not /quite/ right, ; starts the next command as soon as the first one ended. & actually puts the command to the background. just try this: echo foo & echo bar & echo test & Commented Mar 6, 2013 at 10:08
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    @Finkregh, of course. Nobody doubts that. I just meant they both separate commands (from a syntax point of view) with no implications on how they are run. Commented Mar 6, 2013 at 10:57
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    It's not quite what was asked, since the question specified issuing a "single command". Neither is my answer, as it too is a series of commands, but it has at least one semantic of a single command in that output is concatenated, can be redirected, etc. Commented Mar 7, 2013 at 0:57
  • "Multiple commands with a single command" seems to be an oxymoron, though - what does that mean? If this is for something like sudo so you could enter the password only once, wrap then in bash -c or similar. Commented Jan 23, 2018 at 13:10