[K12OSN] Script Error with file names that have spaces

[Jim Kronebusch]

> A non-quoted backslash `\' is the Bash escape character. It 
> preserves the literal value of the next character that 
> follows, with the exception of newline. If a \newline pair 
> appears, and the backslash itself is not quoted, the \newline 
> is treated as a line continuation (that is, it is removed 
> from the input stream and effectively ignored).
> 
> So escape your " with a \

I must be a little slow today, I don't quite get what you are saying
here.  Could you insert the \ as an example in the following script?

#!/bin/bash
for file in /home/Drop/*
do owner=$(ls -ld $file|awk '{print $3}')
chown -R $owner $file
Done

Here is an example of the error I am getting:

chown: failed to get attributes of `/home/Drop/Network': No such file or
directory
chown: failed to get attributes of `Trash': No such file or directory
chown: failed to get attributes of `Folder': No such file or directory

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