diff --git a/src/bin/rir.rs b/src/bin/rir.rs
index 0295606..fde2ff2 100644
--- a/src/bin/rir.rs
+++ b/src/bin/rir.rs
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ fn main() {
                 .takes_value(true).required(true))
             .arg(Arg::with_name("output")
                 .help("Output directory")
-                .short("o").long("output").takes_value(true).required(false))
+                .short("o").long("output").takes_value(true).required(true))
             .arg(Arg::with_name("overwrite")
                 .help("Overwrite existing files")
                 .short("f").long("force").takes_value(false).required(false)))
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ fn cmd_bnd(args: &ArgMatches) -> i32 {
 
 fn cmd_bhf(args: &ArgMatches) -> i32 {
     let file_path: &str = args.value_of("file").unwrap();
-    let output_path: Option<&str> = args.value_of("output");
+    let output_path: &str = args.value_of("output").unwrap();
     let overwrite: bool = args.is_present("overwrite");
     match unpackers::bhf::extract_bhf_file(file_path, output_path, overwrite) {
         Err(e) => { eprintln!("Failed to extract BHF: {:?}", e); 1 }
diff --git a/src/unpackers/bhf.rs b/src/unpackers/bhf.rs
index ef5dc37..85af384 100644
--- a/src/unpackers/bhf.rs
+++ b/src/unpackers/bhf.rs
@@ -11,11 +11,9 @@ use crate::utils::fs as utils_fs;
 /// Extract BHF file and corresponding BDT contents to disk.
 ///
 /// Wraps around `extract_bhf` to load the BHF file from disk.
-/// If output_dir is none, entries will be extracted relatively to the
-/// BHF path.
 pub fn extract_bhf_file(
     bhf_path: &str,
-    output_dir: Option<&str>,
+    output_dir: &str,
     overwrite: bool
 ) -> Result<(), UnpackError> {
     let bhf = load_bhf_file(bhf_path)?;
@@ -30,15 +28,6 @@ pub fn extract_bhf_file(
     };
     let bdt_data = utils_fs::open_file_to_vec(&bdt_path)?;
 
-    let output_dir: &str = if output_dir.is_none() {
-        let parent = path::Path::new(bhf_path).parent();
-        if parent.is_none() {
-            return Err(UnpackError::Naming(format!("Can't find BHF parent dir: {:?}", bhf_path)))
-        }
-        parent.unwrap().to_str().unwrap()  // Conversion should not fail as bhf_path is valid.
-    } else {
-        output_dir.unwrap()
-    };
     extract_bhf(&bhf, &bdt_data, output_dir, overwrite)?;
     Ok(())
 }