1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/libbb/concat_path_file.c b/libbb/concat_path_file.c
index c699a84f7..86dd2fbbf 100644
--- a/libbb/concat_path_file.c
+++ b/libbb/concat_path_file.c
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ extern char *concat_path_file(const char *path, const char *filename)
         if (!path)
             path="";
         lc = last_char_is(path, '/');
-        if (filename[0] == '/')
+        while (*filename == '/')
                 filename++;
         outbuf = xmalloc(strlen(path)+strlen(filename)+1+(lc==NULL));
         sprintf(outbuf, "%s%s%s", path, (lc==NULL)? "/" : "", filename);