# Group steps missing "commands"

**URL:** https://forum.buildkite.community/t/group-steps-missing-commands/1790
**Category:** Features Requests
**Created:** [November 20, 2021, 12:03am UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/group-steps-missing-commands/1790 "2021-11-20T00:03:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
**Page:** 1

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### Author: ![chomey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b4bc9f/32.png) [@chomey](https://forum.buildkite.community/u/chomey)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2021, 12:03am UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/group-steps-missing-commands/1790/1 "2021-11-20T00:03:05Z")

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Per [Group Step | Buildkite Documentation](https://buildkite.com/docs/pipelines/group-step#parallel-groups)  
The example shows:

```auto
steps:
  - group: "111"
    depends_on: "tests"
    steps:
      - command: "a.sh"
      - wait
      - command: "b.sh"

```

To be in line with the rest of the buildkite pipelines, can support for `commands` be added and not just `command` ?

Expected:

```auto
steps:
  - group: "111"
    depends_on: "tests"
    steps:
      - commands: 
         - "a.sh"
         - wait
         - "b.sh"

```

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### Author: ![paula](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.buildkite.community/paula/32/954_2.png) [@paula](https://forum.buildkite.community/u/paula)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2021, 3:01am UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/group-steps-missing-commands/1790/2 "2021-11-20T03:01:19Z")

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Hey @chomey! 👋

When you specify `commands`, all the commands will run as part of a single job, it’s a shortcut for a script containing the commands. Group step can group together any jobs that the user wants to group logically and it does not support sub-groups.

Best!

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### Author: ![paula](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.buildkite.community/paula/32/954_2.png) [@paula](https://forum.buildkite.community/u/paula)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2021, 10:44pm UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/group-steps-missing-commands/1790/3 "2021-11-26T22:44:08Z")

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Hey!

Some news about this 🙂 This should work as you expected:

```auto
steps:
  - group: 
    steps:
      - commands:
        - echo "1"
        - echo "2"
        - echo "3"

```

The `wait` inside `commands` is ignored.

Best!