Start JBoss AS 7.1.Final and doesn't matter if it's standalone or domain mode Try to execute 2 or more commands using the jboss-cli.sh script (and maybe the same problem happen to win script as well because this calls a java class) example: ./jboss-cli.sh -c --commands=/host=master/server-config=example:add(auto-start=true,group=main-server-group,socket-binding-port-offset=300,socket-binding-group=standard-sockets),/host=master/server-config=example:start I saw the code and at some point it runs [commands = arg.split(",+") in the ] so the first command has comma separated attributes and it doesn't work as expected.