diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 04817af8827..e2dbe8dc67f 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
 
   IMPROVEMENTS
 
+    HADOOP-11719. [Fsshell] Remove bin/hadoop reference from
+    GenericOptionsParser default help text.
+    (Brahma Reddy Battula via harsh)
+
     HADOOP-11692. Improve authentication failure WARN message to avoid user
     confusion. (Yongjun Zhang)
 
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/GenericOptionsParser.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/GenericOptionsParser.java
index 0a46a7a81ca..925aad680aa 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/GenericOptionsParser.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/GenericOptionsParser.java
@@ -513,7 +513,7 @@ public class GenericOptionsParser {
                 "specify comma separated archives to be unarchived" +
                 " on the compute machines.\n");
     out.println("The general command line syntax is");
-    out.println("bin/hadoop command [genericOptions] [commandOptions]\n");
+    out.println("command [genericOptions] [commandOptions]\n");
   }
   
 }