bash - how to output file names surrounded with quotes in SINGLE line?

Question

I would like to output the list of items in a folder in the folowing way:

"filename1"  "filename2" "file name with spaces" "foldername" "folder name with spaces"

In other words, item names must be in a single line, surrounded with quotes (single or double) and divided by spaces.

I know that

find . | xargs echo

prints output in a single line, but I do not know how to add quotes around each item name.

This code is part of a bsh script. The solution can therefore be a set of commands and use temporary files for storing intermediate output.

Thank you very much for any suggestion.

Cheers, Ana

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6041596/how-to-output-file-names-surrounded-with-quotes-in-single-line

Answer 1

You could also simply use find "-printf", as in :

find . -printf ""%p" " | xargs your_command

where:

%p = file-path

This will surround every found file-path with quotes and separate each item with a space. This avoids the use of multiple commands.