diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index ce165101bf..b0367a7dd1 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -256,6 +256,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
 
   IMPROVEMENTS
 
+    MAPREDUCE-6291. Correct mapred queue usage command.
+    (Brahma Reddu Battula via harsh)
+
     MAPREDUCE-579. Streaming "slowmatch" documentation. (harsh)
 
     MAPREDUCE-6287. Deprecated methods in org.apache.hadoop.examples.Sort
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/JobQueueClient.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/JobQueueClient.java
index 097e338a92..81f6140124 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/JobQueueClient.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/JobQueueClient.java
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ private void displayQueueAclsInfoForCurrentUser() throws IOException {
   }
 
   private void displayUsage(String cmd) {
-    String prefix = "Usage: JobQueueClient ";
+    String prefix = "Usage: queue ";
     if ("-queueinfo".equals(cmd)) {
       System.err.println(prefix + "[" + cmd + "<job-queue-name> [-showJobs]]");
     } else {
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/pipes/Submitter.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/pipes/Submitter.java
index 8f4259e3ec..4f5b6a1c9c 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/pipes/Submitter.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/pipes/Submitter.java
@@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ Parser createParser() {
     void printUsage() {
       // The CLI package should do this for us, but I can't figure out how
       // to make it print something reasonable.
-      System.out.println("bin/hadoop pipes");
+      System.out.println("Usage: pipes ");
       System.out.println("  [-input <path>] // Input directory");
       System.out.println("  [-output <path>] // Output directory");
       System.out.println("  [-jar <jar file> // jar filename");
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/tools/CLI.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/tools/CLI.java
index c3f15646f4..a350829c93 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/tools/CLI.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/tools/CLI.java
@@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ private String getTaskTypes() {
    * Display usage of the command-line tool and terminate execution.
    */
   private void displayUsage(String cmd) {
-    String prefix = "Usage: CLI ";
+    String prefix = "Usage: job ";
     String jobPriorityValues = getJobPriorityNames();
     String taskStates = "running, completed";
     
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-archives/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/HadoopArchives.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-archives/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/HadoopArchives.java
index 18cd972af4..c5c42b1425 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-archives/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/HadoopArchives.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-archives/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/HadoopArchives.java
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ public class HadoopArchives implements Tool {
   /** the desired replication degree; default is 10 **/
   short repl = 10;
 
-  private static final String usage = "archive"
+  private static final String usage = "Usage: archive"
   + " -archiveName <NAME>.har -p <parent path> [-r <replication factor>]" +
       "<src>* <dest>" +
   "\n";