diff --git a/llvm/utils/collect_and_build_with_pgo.py b/llvm/utils/collect_and_build_with_pgo.py
--- a/llvm/utils/collect_and_build_with_pgo.py
+++ b/llvm/utils/collect_and_build_with_pgo.py
@@ -164,8 +164,8 @@
                     cwd=None,
                     check=False,
                     silent_unless_error=False):
-        print(
-            'Running `%s` in %s' % (cmd, shlex.quote(cwd or os.getcwd())))
+        print('(cd %s && %s)' % (shlex.quote(cwd or os.getcwd()),
+                                 ' '.join([shlex.quote(arg) for arg in cmd])))
 
         if self.dry_run:
             return
@@ -236,7 +236,10 @@
 
 
 def _run_fresh_cmake(env, cmake, target_dir):
-    if not env.dry_run:
+    if env.dry_run:
+        print('rm -rf %s' % shlex.quote(target_dir))
+        print('mkdir -p %s' % shlex.quote(target_dir))
+    else:
         try:
             shutil.rmtree(target_dir)
         except FileNotFoundError: