How do I apply a shell command to many files in nested (and poorly escaped) subdirectories?

Question

I\'m trying to do something like the following:

for file in `find . *.foo`
do
somecommand $file
done

But the command isn\'t working because

Answer 1

Instead of relying on the shell to do that work, rely on find to do it:

find . -name "*.foo" -exec somecommand "{}" \;

Then the file name will be properly escaped, and never interpreted by the shell.