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

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.

Answer 2

this should work

find $PWD | sed 's/^/"/g' | sed 's/$/"/g' | tr '\n' ' ' 

EDIT:

This should be more efficient than the previous one.

find $PWD | sed -e 's/^/"/g' -e 's/$/"/g' | tr '\n' ' ' 

@Timofey's solution would work with a tr in the end, and should be the most efficient.

find $PWD -exec echo -n '"{}" ' \; | tr '\n' ' '