diff --git a/src/options.c b/src/options.c
index b5a95ddfdd5a3e9ff18c2897359372da10b68794..052f8a815411af89befacb84abf15ba6cfdc0d11 100644
--- a/src/options.c
+++ b/src/options.c
@@ -794,7 +794,7 @@ static void feh_parse_option_array(int argc, char **argv, int finalrun)
 		add_file_to_filelist_recursively(".", FILELIST_FIRST);
 
 	/* So that we can safely be called again */
-	optind = 1;
+	optind = 0;
 	return;
 }