diff --git a/nix/terraform-validate/default.nix b/nix/terraform-validate/default.nix
index abf37dc6..8dbf0cad 100644
--- a/nix/terraform-validate/default.nix
+++ b/nix/terraform-validate/default.nix
@@ -8,6 +8,6 @@ set -x
     | sort \
     | uniq \
     | while read dir; do
-        ${opentofu}/bin/tofu validate "$dir"
+        ${opentofu}/bin/tofu -chdir="$dir" validate
       done
 ''