Multiline Commands

Command input may span multiple lines for the commands whose names are listed in the multiline_commands argument to cmd2.Cmd.__init__(). These commands will be executed only after the user has entered a terminator. By default, the command terminator is ;; specifying the terminators optional argument to cmd2.Cmd.__init__() allows different terminators. A blank line is always considered a command terminator (cannot be overridden).

In multiline commands, output redirection characters like > and | are part of the command arguments unless they appear after the terminator.