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 wit         


        

Answer 1

for f in *; do printf "'%s' " "$f"; done; echo

Or, thanks to Gordon Davisson:

printf "'%s' " *; echo

The trailing echo is simply to add a newline to the output.