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Single quotation marks suddenly appear around file and directory names
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I'd wager a guess, that all file/folder paths that are surrounded by quotes contain at least one space!? And you're talking about the output of ls? It's rather unlikely, that installing any software has changed that behavior. It's just a display feature, to denote that "two" parts separated by a space are actually one.
And also I think those paths are properly escaped, so you can just copy them to the terminal with the quotes for use as a path.
But I may be misremembering it so I would be happy if someone could confirm this.