diff --git a/.shellcheck-ignore b/.shellcheck-ignore
index 004cf65..f546731 100644
--- a/.shellcheck-ignore
+++ b/.shellcheck-ignore
@@ -32,3 +32,4 @@
 tools/dreport.d/plugins.d/timedate
 tools/dreport.d/plugins.d/top
 tools/dreport.d/plugins.d/uptime
+tools/dreport.d/ibm.d/plugins.d/badpel
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 88bc284..c221e7a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
 To build this package with meson, do the following steps:
 
-```
+```bash
     1. meson builddir
     2. ninja -C builddir
 ```
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 
 or with an OpenBMC x86 sdk(see below for x86 steps).
 
-```
+```bash
 meson -Dtests=enabled build
 ninja -C build test
 ```
diff --git a/tools/dreport.d/README.md b/tools/dreport.d/README.md
index 21c573a..861eae6 100644
--- a/tools/dreport.d/README.md
+++ b/tools/dreport.d/README.md
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 archive. Each plugin needs a comment line like the following to specify which
 dump types should trigger it:
 
-```
+```bash
 # config A B
 ```
 
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 
 For example, the `bmcstate` plugin has:
 
-```
+```bash
 # config: 12345 5
 ```
 
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 During the bitbake build, the script will be linked into a directory based on
 the dump type, with the priority built into the name:
 
-```
+```bash
 /usr/share/dreport.d# find /usr/share/dreport.d/ -name *bmcstate
 /usr/share/dreport.d/plugins.d/bmcstate
 /usr/share/dreport.d/pl_user.d/E5bmcstate
diff --git a/tools/dreport.d/ibm.d/plugins.d/badpel b/tools/dreport.d/ibm.d/plugins.d/badpel
index 08beb65..a1de332 100644
--- a/tools/dreport.d/ibm.d/plugins.d/badpel
+++ b/tools/dreport.d/ibm.d/plugins.d/badpel
@@ -10,5 +10,5 @@
 file_name="/var/lib/phosphor-logging/extensions/pels/badPEL"
 
 if [ -e "$file_name" ]; then
-  add_copy_file "$file_name" "$desc"
+    add_copy_file "$file_name" "$desc"
 fi