diff --git a/mvwrap/mvwrap b/mvwrap/mvwrap
index 7a16cc2..f85e6e0 100755
--- a/mvwrap/mvwrap
+++ b/mvwrap/mvwrap
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ use POSIX qw(tmpnam);
 use Getopt::Long;
 
 &cmdline;
-&read_cur_dir;
+unless (defined @source) { &read_cur_dir; }
 &lock;
 
 if (@pattern) {
@@ -213,6 +213,11 @@ sub cmdline {
 
 	&help if $opt_h;
 	if ($opt_f) { &read_pattern; }
+	if (defined @ARGV) {
+		foreach (@ARGV) {
+			push @source, "$_\n";
+		}
+	}
 }
 
 sub help {
@@ -224,7 +229,7 @@ It basically lets you edit the names in a directory with an editor
 of your choice. By default this will be "vi", but it honors the EDITOR
 environment variable. Which in turn can be overridden with the -e option.
 
-$0 [options]
+$0 [options] [--] [files]
 
 At the moment it takes the following options:
 -h			this help message