src/nnn.c | 3 ++-

diff --git a/src/nnn.c b/src/nnn.c
index 598d78db11d9a5c1df58eadd364ee891f23b8168..d0334f5af80720b59822f032c2eac3dbba49ad15 100644
--- a/src/nnn.c
+++ b/src/nnn.c
@@ -1752,8 +1752,9 @@
 static int scanselforpath(const char *path, bool getsize)
 {
 	if (!path[1]) { /* path should always be at least two bytes (including NULL) */
+		g_buf[0] = '/';
 		findselpos = pselbuf;
-		return TRUE;
+		return 1; /* Length of '/' is 1 */
 	}
 
 	size_t off = xstrsncpy(g_buf, path, PATH_MAX);