Wouldn't a semicolon work?

I.E. Usually you can put multiple commands on a single line by seperating them with a semicolon:

command [argument] ; command [argument] ; command [argument] ... etc.
is the same as:
command [argument] <NL>
command [argument] <NL>
command [argument] <NL>
...
etc.

NOTE:

The vertical bar you used, usually called 'Pipe', does NOT seperate commands the same way. It is used to direct the output of one command to be used as the input of the next command. I'm fairly certain that using it as you indicated would not work at all, unless the first command had output that the second command could use.