diff --git a/scala/qscript/chartl/batchMergePipeline.q b/scala/qscript/chartl/batchMergePipeline.q
index 92042c873..7eb693a34 100755
--- a/scala/qscript/chartl/batchMergePipeline.q
+++ b/scala/qscript/chartl/batchMergePipeline.q
@@ -16,8 +16,6 @@ class batchMergePipeline extends QScript {
   @Argument(doc="reference file",shortName="ref") var ref: File = _
   @Argument(doc="batched output",shortName="batch") var batchOut: File = _
 
-  def addAll( cmds : List[CommandLineFunction]) : Unit = { cmds.foreach( c => add(c)) }
-
   def script = {
 
     var vcfs : List[File] = extractFileEntries(vcfList)
@@ -29,4 +27,4 @@ class batchMergePipeline extends QScript {
   def extractFileEntries(in: File): List[File] = {
     return (new XReadLines(in)).readLines.toList.map( new File(_) )
   }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}