Bug 15985 - tar with multiple -C incorrectly processes them
Summary: tar with multiple -C incorrectly processes them
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Busybox
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Standard Compliance (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All Linux
: P5 normal
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Reported: 2024-03-11 22:08 UTC by Yuri Astrakhan
Modified: 2024-03-11 22:08 UTC (History)
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Description Yuri Astrakhan 2024-03-11 22:08:23 UTC 
The standard tar can take multiple `-C` params (change dir before compressing), so if I have multiple files in multiple dirs, I can tar them all by prepending each subset of files with their directory:

```
tar -czf newfile.tar.gz \
         -C $PWD/dir1 file1 file2 \
         -C $PWD/dir2 file3 file4
```

Busybox tar ignores all but the last `-C`, which results in `file1` and `file2` not found.