How to change owner of script to root?

Targets macOS
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I’m trying to change the owner of a script to root? I need to do this to manage Valentina Server. The script is very simple:

chown root:admin $1

But I’m not sure how to use the script with the file that needs the root owner. When I execute the script in Terminal I get errors:

Trixis-iMac:~ beatrix_willius$ sudo /private/var/folders/yr/t1mywwrs1s1d0qv8cwv928240000gp/T/com.mothsoftware.mailarchiverxproadmin-temp1599715237 ‘/Users/beatrixwillius\ 1/Library/Application\ Support/Mail\ Archiver\ X\ Pro\ Admin/start_me.sh’
chown: /Users/beatrixwillius\: No such file or directory
chown: 1/Library/Application\: No such file or directory
chown: Support/Mail\: No such file or directory
chown: Archiver\: No such file or directory
chown: X\: No such file or directory
chown: Pro\: No such file or directory
chown: Admin/start_me.sh: No such file or directory

The problem seems to be the spaces in the path. I’ve also tried without the \ but I get the same errors. What am I doing wrong?

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In the chown script, you need:

chown root:admin “$1”

ie: quotes around where the substitution will occur.

Then, when calling the above, no need to escape spaces in the path encapsulated with the single quotes, ie:

‘/Users/beatrixwillius 1/Library/Application Support/Mail Archiver X Pro Admin/start_me.sh’

I’ve only checked this very quickly here using echo and cd instead of chown, but I’m kind of sure the above will work.

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Thanks, that was it. Now the script works in Terminal but not in code.