Can't remove apostrophes from filenames in terminal

Question

I don't understand why zsh and bash (ls) show me lots of filename inside apostrophes, but not all:

'joe rilla - mauern fallen.mp3'
jokaz-alarmbereit.mp3
'yoshi blessed - everybody free.mp3'

I tried to remove the ' like here with rename and bash:

But without success. It tells me "A and B are the same file".

How can I get rid of the apostrophes?

Possibly related: [Why is 'ls' suddenly wrapping items with spaces in single quotes?](http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/258679/why-is-ls-suddenly-wrapping-items-with-spaces-in-single-quotes) — steeldriver, Jun 07 '16 at 15:49

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 07 '16 at 15:49

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It isn't an apostrophe in the filename. The filenames that have whitespaces are getting 'wrapped'.

answered Jun 07 '16 at 15:49

Jedi

Ok. I see. I had the suspicion now but after the question was posted. thanks – haheute Jun 07 '16 at 15:52

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