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Entering Multiple Debugger Commands on One Line

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When you enter a single debugger command, terminate it with an end-of-line (EOL), which is usually done by pressing Return. When you enter multiple commands on one line, separate each command with a semicolon (;).

The alias, debug, define, target command, property flags, and shell commands require the rest of the line as an argument. They only recognize an EOL, not a semicolon, as a terminator.

However, you can combine these commands with others on the command line if you enclose them in square brackets [], braces {}, or parentheses (). For example, you could create an alias and then invoke it on the same command line:

[alias ph print -hex]; ph foo