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

To avoid hacks trying to manually add quotes, you can take advantage of printfs %q formatting option:

❯ ll .zshrc.d
total 112K
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root  378 Jul  1 04:39  options.zsh*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root   57 Jul  1 04:39  history.zsh*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root  301 Jul  1 05:01  zinit.zsh*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root  79K Jul  1 05:19  p10k.zsh*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root  345 Jul  1 05:24  zplugins.zsh*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root  490 Jul  4 23:40  aliases.zsh*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9.0K Jul 27 08:14  lscolors.zsh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    0 Aug 30 05:56 'foo bar'
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    0 Aug 30 05:58 '"foo"'

❯ find .zshrc.d -exec printf '%q ' {} +
.zshrc.d .zshrc.d/history.zsh .zshrc.d/aliases.zsh .zshrc.d/zplugins.zsh .zshrc.d/p10k.zsh .zshrc.d/zinit.zsh .zshrc.d/options.zsh '.zshrc.d/"foo"' '.zshrc.d/foo bar' .zshrc.d/lscolors.zsh #

vs:

find .zshrc.d -printf "\"%p\" "
".zshrc.d" ".zshrc.d/history.zsh" ".zshrc.d/aliases.zsh" ".zshrc.d/zplugins.zsh" ".zshrc.d/p10k.zsh" ".zshrc.d/zinit.zsh" ".zshrc.d/options.zsh" ".zshrc.d/"foo"" ".zshrc.d/foo bar" ".zshrc.d/lscolors.zsh" #

Notice the file .zshrc.d/"foo" is incorrectly escaped.

❯ echo ".zshrc.d/"foo""
.zshrc.d/foo

❯ echo '.zshrc.d/"foo"'
.zshrc.d/"foo"