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List files by quoting or escaping special characters.

Terminal - List files by quoting or escaping special characters.
ls --quoting-style={escape,shell,c}
2010-08-17 16:50:38
User: stubby
Functions: ls
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List files by quoting or escaping special characters.

Tested and works on Linux.

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ls -Q
2010-08-17 15:01:50
User: stubby
Functions: ls
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List files with quotes around each filename
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ls | sed 's,\(.*\),"\1",'
2010-08-17 14:27:27
User: randy909
Functions: ls sed
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List files with quotes around each filename

I had a file named " " (one space) and needed a way to see what the real filename was so I could remove it. sed to the rescue.

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for i in *; do echo '"'$i'"'; done
2010-08-17 16:58:48
User: stubby
Functions: echo
Tags: for
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List files with names in quotes.

bash

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ls | sed 's/.*/"&"/'
2010-08-17 15:38:51
User: putnamhill
Functions: ls sed
Tags: sed ls
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List files with quotes around each filename

Looks like you're stuck with sed if your ls doesn't have a -Q option.

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