Executing multiple commands with sudo fails

Hi,
We're having trouble with sudo and bash. When we want to execute multiple commands and there are spaces, the commands don't run. Here's an example of what works:
[root@erpapp1-prod ~]# sudo -i -u oracle bash -c 'ls;pwd'
In this case, I get a listing of the files in /home/oracle followed by the current directory of /home/oracle.
Here's an example of what DOESN'T work:
[root@erpapp1-prod ~]# sudo -i -u oracle bash -c 'ls; pwd'
Notice the space before "pwd". In this case, all I get is the listing of files in /home/oracle.
Caveat: I'm a real beginner with Linux. I've compared many of the files (/home/oracle/.bash_profile, /home/oracle/.bashrc, /etc/bashrc, /etc/profile) from this server to another where we don't have issues and, other than some logic being in different order, don't see much of a difference. Again, very beginner here.
Any ideas? Thanks!
Todd

What shows up as a space may not necessarily be a space. For instance, it could be some control character like a newline, which might interfere with the execution. For example:
$ test=`echo -e "test;\ntest"`
$ echo $test
test; test
$ echo "$test"
test;
test
Here is another example:
# test=`echo -e "ls;\npwd"`
# su - oracle -c "$test"
oradiag_oracle
/home/oracle
# su - oracle -c $test
oradiag_oracle
I cannot guess how you construct the command list. Perhaps the problem is a text files that was created under Windows and copied as binary to Linux, or a shell script using a different IFS environment variable, etc.
Personally I would use a different approach. From a security standpoint it is a bad idea to use passwords at the command prompt because every user can see them using the ps -ef output.

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