diff --git a/bin/fetch.sh b/bin/fetch.sh
index b5f4be6..ba6a1de 100644
--- a/bin/fetch.sh
+++ b/bin/fetch.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 # fetch
-# Written in 2019-2021 by Lucas
+# Written in 2019-2022 by Lucas
 # CC0 1.0 Universal/Public domain - No rights reserved
 #
 # To the extent possible under law, the author(s) have dedicated all
@@ -18,7 +18,11 @@ usage()
 
 fetch_cmd()
 {
-	if tty=$(tty) && [ "$tty" != "not a tty" ]; then
+	# ftp(1) is chatty if stdin is a terminal. It prints its operations to
+	# stdout if "-o output" is used. In that case, we'll need to redirect
+	# stdout to the tty we're being called from, in order to be able to
+	# pipe the output to another command.
+	if tty=$(tty) && [ X"$tty" != X"not a tty" ]; then
 		$torsocks ftp "$@" >"$tty"
 	else
 		$torsocks ftp "$@"