diff --git a/contrib/tidy_datadir.sh b/contrib/tidy_datadir.sh
index 8960f8811d..b845b34e41 100755
--- a/contrib/tidy_datadir.sh
+++ b/contrib/tidy_datadir.sh
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
 
 if [ -d "$1" ]; then
-  cd "$1"
+  cd "$1" || exit 1
 else
   echo "Usage: $0 <datadir>" >&2
   echo "Removes obsolete Bitcoin database files" >&2
diff --git a/contrib/verifybinaries/verify.sh b/contrib/verifybinaries/verify.sh
index 320add64d0..bf2a10337d 100755
--- a/contrib/verifybinaries/verify.sh
+++ b/contrib/verifybinaries/verify.sh
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ if [ ! -d "$WORKINGDIR" ]; then
    mkdir "$WORKINGDIR"
 fi
 
-cd "$WORKINGDIR"
+cd "$WORKINGDIR" || exit 1
 
 #test if a version number has been passed as an argument
 if [ -n "$1" ]; then
diff --git a/share/genbuild.sh b/share/genbuild.sh
index 32ef2a5755..419e0da0fd 100755
--- a/share/genbuild.sh
+++ b/share/genbuild.sh
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
 
 if [ $# -gt 1 ]; then
-    cd "$2"
+    cd "$2" || exit 1
 fi
 if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then
     FILE="$1"