diff --git a/lldb/source/Commands/CommandObjectBreakpoint.cpp b/lldb/source/Commands/CommandObjectBreakpoint.cpp
index fbd6ca44db950..75dc890cc40ed 100644
--- a/lldb/source/Commands/CommandObjectBreakpoint.cpp
+++ b/lldb/source/Commands/CommandObjectBreakpoint.cpp
@@ -767,7 +767,7 @@ class CommandObjectBreakpointAddFile : public CommandObjectParsed {
           m_cur_value.SetLine(line_num);
         }
         break;
-      case 'c':
+      case 'u':
         uint32_t column_num;
         if (option_arg.getAsInteger(0, column_num))
           error = Status::FromError(
diff --git a/lldb/test/API/functionalities/breakpoint/breakpoint_by_line_and_column/TestBreakpointByLineAndColumn.py b/lldb/test/API/functionalities/breakpoint/breakpoint_by_line_and_column/TestBreakpointByLineAndColumn.py
index 5798c8ffa8220..1f5718149b3e3 100644
--- a/lldb/test/API/functionalities/breakpoint/breakpoint_by_line_and_column/TestBreakpointByLineAndColumn.py
+++ b/lldb/test/API/functionalities/breakpoint/breakpoint_by_line_and_column/TestBreakpointByLineAndColumn.py
@@ -27,6 +27,25 @@ def testBreakpointByLineAndColumn(self):
             in_then |= b_loc.GetColumn() == 50
         self.assertTrue(in_then)
 
+    def testBreakpointByLineAndColumnUsingCLI(self):
+        self.build()
+        src_file = lldb.SBFileSpec("main.cpp")
+        line = (
+            line_number("main.cpp", "At the beginning of a function name (col:50)") + 1
+        )  # Next line after comment
+        target, process, _, _ = lldbutil.run_to_source_breakpoint(self, "This is a random comment", src_file)
+        bkpt_no = lldbutil.run_break_set_by_file_and_line(self, "main.cpp", line, "--column 50")
+        breakpoint = target.FindBreakpointByID(bkpt_no)
+        threads = lldbutil.continue_to_breakpoint(process, breakpoint)
+        self.assertEqual(len(threads), 1, "Stopped at our breakpoint")
+        self.expect("fr v did_call", substrs=["1"])
+        in_then = False
+        for i in range(breakpoint.GetNumLocations()):
+            b_loc = breakpoint.GetLocationAtIndex(i).GetAddress().GetLineEntry()
+            self.assertEqual(b_loc.GetLine(), line)
+            in_then |= b_loc.GetColumn() == 50
+        self.assertTrue(in_then)
+
     ## Skip gcc version less 7.1 since it doesn't support -gcolumn-info
     @skipIf(compiler="gcc", compiler_version=["<", "7.1"])
     def testBreakpointByLine(self):