diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 7da02ed560b41..8de5ae4c559e1 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -221,6 +221,9 @@ Trunk (Unreleased)
     HADOOP-12016. Typo in FileSystem::listStatusIterator 
     (Arthur Vigil via jghoman)
 
+    HADOOP-11142. Remove hdfs dfs reference from file system shell
+    documentation (Kengo Seki via aw)
+
   BUG FIXES
 
     HADOOP-11473. test-patch says "-1 overall" even when all checks are +1
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/site/markdown/FileSystemShell.md b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/site/markdown/FileSystemShell.md
index 8ecc24a568c68..144cb732b7dcb 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/site/markdown/FileSystemShell.md
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/site/markdown/FileSystemShell.md
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ Example:
 * `hadoop fs -count hdfs://nn1.example.com/file1 hdfs://nn2.example.com/file2`
 * `hadoop fs -count -q hdfs://nn1.example.com/file1`
 * `hadoop fs -count -q -h hdfs://nn1.example.com/file1`
-* `hdfs dfs -count -q -h -v hdfs://nn1.example.com/file1`
+* `hadoop fs -count -q -h -v hdfs://nn1.example.com/file1`
 
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