diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 08e0ed1..90e9e23 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 ## Bugfixes
 - Handle invalid working directories gracefully when using `--full-path`, see #1900 (@Xavrir).
 - Fire the "search pattern contains a path separator" diagnostic for any pattern containing `/`, not just patterns that happen to name an existing directory. Preserves the legacy Windows behaviour that also flags native `\` separators when the pattern resolves to a real directory. See #1873.
+- Fix bug where passing "-" as a directory argument didn't actually search that directory, see #849 (@Sean-Kenneth-Doherty).
 
 # 10.4.2
 
diff --git a/src/cli.rs b/src/cli.rs
index 9c54d7c..638a042 100644
--- a/src/cli.rs
+++ b/src/cli.rs
@@ -712,6 +712,10 @@ impl Opts {
         } else if path == Path::new(".") {
             // Change "." to "./" as a workaround for https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/pull/2711
             PathBuf::from("./")
+        } else if path == Path::new("-") {
+            // Prefix "-" so the underlying walker treats it as a path.
+            // See sharkdp/fd#849.
+            Path::new(".").join(path)
         } else {
             path.to_path_buf()
         }
diff --git a/tests/tests.rs b/tests/tests.rs
index aa0919c..0340cdd 100644
--- a/tests/tests.rs
+++ b/tests/tests.rs
@@ -459,6 +459,13 @@ fn test_explicit_root_path() {
     );
 }
 
+#[test]
+fn test_single_dash_root_path() {
+    let te = TestEnv::new(&["-"], &["-/foo"]);
+
+    te.assert_output(&[".", "-"], "./-/foo");
+}
+
 /// Regex searches
 #[test]
 fn test_regex_searches() {