; to combine many commands into one line

; to combine many commands into one line

Measuring work time:

date;blender;date
works , opening and closing time of blender reported

date;firefox;date
doesnt work , both dates show same time, why?

Making audiobook of man file:
man bash| cat > bashmanual.txt
espeak -f man.txt -w soundman.wav
ffmpeg -i soundman.wav packedsound.mp3


in one row ->

man bash| cat > man.txt ; espeak -f man.txt -w soundman.wav ; ffmpeg -i soundman.wav packedsound.mp3