[K12OSN] Script Error with file names that have spaces
Jim Kronebusch
jim at winonacotter.org
Wed Sep 1 16:12:16 UTC 2004
> Put the $file in side double quotes For example:
>
> chown -R $owner "$file"
Thanks Jeff and Dave. Between both of your suggestions I now have
things working again with the following:
#!/bin/bash
for file in /home/Drop/*
do owner=$(ls -ld \
"$file"\
|awk '{print $3}')
chown -R $owner \
"$file"
Done
This is what makes this list awesome.
Thanks again.
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