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

EDIT:
The following answer generate a new-line separated LIST instead of a single line.

1. I'm second guessing that the OP uses the result for invoking other command
2. converting the output LIST to single line is easy (| tr '\n' ' ')

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A less mentioned method is to use -d (--delimiter) option of xargs:

find . | xargs -I@ -d"\n" echo \"@\" 

-I@ captures each find result as @ and then we echo-ed it with quotes

With this you can invoke any commands just as you added quotes to the arguments.

$ find . | xargs -d"\n" testcli.js
[ "filename1",
  "filename2",
  "file name with spaces",
  "foldername",
  "folder name with spaces" ]

See https://stackoverflow.com/a/33528111/665507