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-rw-r--r--tools/gpgtar-create.c8
-rw-r--r--tools/gpgtar.c2
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/gpgtar-create.c b/tools/gpgtar-create.c
index c622a6672..a08601634 100644
--- a/tools/gpgtar-create.c
+++ b/tools/gpgtar-create.c
@@ -762,6 +762,14 @@ gpgtar_create (char **inpattern, int encrypt, int sign)
memset (scanctrl, 0, sizeof *scanctrl);
scanctrl->flist_tail = &scanctrl->flist;
+ if (opt.directory && gnupg_chdir (opt.directory))
+ {
+ err = gpg_error_from_syserror ();
+ log_error ("chdir to '%s' failed: %s\n",
+ opt.directory, gpg_strerror (err));
+ return err;
+ }
+
while (!eof_seen)
{
char *pat, *p;
diff --git a/tools/gpgtar.c b/tools/gpgtar.c
index 77001dc91..b33aa6d0f 100644
--- a/tools/gpgtar.c
+++ b/tools/gpgtar.c
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ static ARGPARSE_OPTS opts[] = {
ARGPARSE_group (302, N_("@\nTar options:\n ")),
ARGPARSE_s_s (oDirectory, "directory",
- N_("|DIRECTORY|extract files into DIRECTORY")),
+ N_("|DIRECTORY|change to DIRECTORY first")),
ARGPARSE_s_s (oFilesFrom, "files-from",
N_("|FILE|get names to create from FILE")),
ARGPARSE_s_n (oNull, "null", N_("-T reads null-terminated names")),