Replace single quotes for strings divided by blank space from variable

I'm writing a bash script where I'm reading in a variable via read this two strings: log.*.console.log log.*.log They are separated by space. How can I rewrite the strings that the output from the variable for the next program called in the script will have them in this form ? 'log.*.console.log' 'log.*.log' I was trying sed and awk but somehow without success. The whole script: #!/bin/bash if [ -z "$*" ] ; then echo "USAGE: ./some text" exit 1 else echo "some text" read varlogname i=1 for file in $@ do echo "Doing" $file GTAR=$(gtar -xvf $file --wildcards --ignore-case --no-anchored "$varlogname") for file in ${GTAR[*]} do mv $file $file"."${i} i=$((i+1)) done done echo "Files extracted." fi exit 0