"Here Document" as a Single Line Command?

I have this command to run a checksum in some software I want to install: echo "85762db0edc00ce19a2cd5496d1627903e6198ad850bbbdefb2ceaa46bd20cbd install.sh" | sha256sum -c But I would like to use it with the sha256sum command *first*. So we have that using heredoc: sha256sum -c << EOF 85762db0edc00ce19a2cd5496d1627903e6198ad850bbbdefb2ceaa46bd20cbd install.sh EOF But now I would like this to be all on one line... So I tried: sha256sum -c << EOF ; 85762db0edc00ce19a2cd5496d1627903e6198ad850bbbdefb2ceaa46bd20cbd install.sh ; EOF And it doesn't work. But _shouldn't_ it work if the semicolon ; means "we're going to run another command"? Can we get it in that order, but written a different way to work on one line? If not, why can't we tell it what to do on each multiple line, but on one line?