diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -14,3 +14,13 @@ cd /tmp && git clone https://github.com/sakserv/sequencefile-examples.git
 ```
 cd /tmp/sequencefile-examples && bash -x bin/build.sh
 ```
+
+* Write a sequence file to HDFS
+```
+hadoop jar target/sequencefile-examples-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar com.github.sakserv.sequencefile.SequenceFileWriter /tmp/seqfile_ex/seqfile.seq
+```
+
+* Read the sequence file from HDFS
+```
+hadoop jar target/sequencefile-examples-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar com.github.sakserv.sequencefile.SequenceFileReader /tmp/seqfile_ex/seqfile.seq
+```