Surround all lines in a text file with quotes ('something')

Question

I\'ve got a list of directories that contain spaces.

I need to surround them with \' \' to ensure that my batch scripts will work.

How can one surround each new

Answer 1

very simple logic, you just need to echo the quotes in front and behind.

while read -r line
do
  echo "'$line'"
  # do something
done < "file"