Question

I know that I am supposed to use (;) to separate multiple commands but what is the correct format for issuing all these commands in a single line to install magento using ssh to bypass the web based installer?

php-cli -f install.php -- \
--license_agreement_accepted "yes" \
--locale "en_US" \
--timezone "America/Los_Angeles" \
--default_currency "USD" \
--db_host "DB_HOST" \
--db_name "DB_NAME" \
--db_user "DB_USER" \
--db_pass "DB_PASS" \
--url "SITE_URL" \
--use_rewrites "yes" \
--use_secure "no" \
--secure_base_url "" \
--use_secure_admin "no" \
--admin_firstname "FIRST_NAME" \
--admin_lastname "LAST_NAME" \
--admin_email "EMAIL_ADDRESS" \
--admin_username "USERNAME" \
--admin_password "PASSWORD"

Answer 1

Those don’t seem to be commands but parameters. Putting them all into a single line:

php-cli -f install.php --license_agreement_accepted "yes" --locale "en_US"  ...

should work.