script/public-inbox-convert | 4 ++--

diff --git a/script/public-inbox-convert b/script/public-inbox-convert
index acecf3d54ed5db44b5aa585fe4e939a8f52e5aac..281313e02873fb7bd7aa27ba8fcc5dbd0e2c188f 100755
--- a/script/public-inbox-convert
+++ b/script/public-inbox-convert
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ 	'--jobs|j=i' => \$jobs,
 	'--index!' => \$index,
 );
 GetOptions(%opts) or die "bad command-line args\n$usage";
-my $old_dir = shift or die $usage;
-my $new_dir = shift or die $usage;
+my $old_dir = shift(@ARGV) or die $usage;
+my $new_dir = shift(@ARGV) or die $usage;
 die "$new_dir exists\n" if -d $new_dir;
 die "$old_dir not a directory\n" unless -d $old_dir;
 my $config = eval { PublicInbox::Config->new };