diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 73130d39f..d3d351f48 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ data-validation run
   --labels or -l KEY1=VALUE1,KEY2=VALUE2
                         (Optional) Comma-separated key value pair labels for the run.
   --verbose or -v       Verbose logging will print queries executed
+  --format or -fmt      Pretty Printing command output, Supported formats are (text, csv, json, table)
 ```
 
 The default aggregation type is a 'COUNT *'. If no aggregation flag (i.e count,
diff --git a/data_validation/cli_tools.py b/data_validation/cli_tools.py
index 41e189e8f..9c18b923e 100644
--- a/data_validation/cli_tools.py
+++ b/data_validation/cli_tools.py
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ def _configure_run_parser(subparsers):
     )
     run_parser.add_argument(
         "--format",
-        "-format",
+        "-fmt",
         default="table",
         help="Set the format for printing command output",
     )