From 52f02c42e6a84a551b0f7eade38be62dd6c37cf2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tomer Froumin <Tomer.TF@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 10:46:22 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed crash when path has multiple leading slashes

---
 pkg/kubectl/cmd/cp.go | 7 ++-----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pkg/kubectl/cmd/cp.go b/pkg/kubectl/cmd/cp.go
index a5d67de3f96..150fe8ead3f 100644
--- a/pkg/kubectl/cmd/cp.go
+++ b/pkg/kubectl/cmd/cp.go
@@ -378,11 +378,8 @@ func untarAll(reader io.Reader, destFile, prefix string) error {
 }
 
 func getPrefix(file string) string {
-	if file[0] == '/' {
-		// tar strips the leading '/' if it's there, so we will too
-		return file[1:]
-	}
-	return file
+	// tar strips the leading '/' if it's there, so we will too
+	return strings.TrimLeft(file, "/")
 }
 
 func execute(f cmdutil.Factory, cmd *cobra.Command, options *ExecOptions) error {