diff --git a/hive_tables_column_counts.sh b/hive_tables_column_counts.sh
index 3463a7e1..b4aabf5e 100755
--- a/hive_tables_column_counts.sh
+++ b/hive_tables_column_counts.sh
@@ -25,10 +25,17 @@ srcdir="$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")"
 usage_description="
 Prints the number of columns per Hive table
 
+Output Format:
+
+<db>.<table>    <column_count>
+
+
 FILTER environment variable will restrict to matching fully qualified tables (<db>.<table>)
 
+
 Tested on Hive 1.1.0 on CDH 5.10, 5.16
 
+
 For more documentation see the comments at the top of beeline.sh
 
 For a better version written in Python see DevOps Python tools repo: