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

I had to do something similar some time ago, renaming files to allow them to live in Win32 environments:

#!/bin/bash
IFS=$'\n'
function RecurseDirs
{
for f in "$@"
do
  newf=echo "${f}" | sed -e 's/[\\/:\*\?#"\|<>]/_/g'
  if [ ${newf} != ${f} ]; then
    echo "${f}" "${newf}"
    mv "${f}" "${newf}"
    f="${newf}"
  fi
  if [[ -d "${f}" ]]; then
    cd "${f}"
    RecurseDirs $(ls -1 ".")
  fi
done
cd ..
}
RecurseDirs .

This is probably a little simplistic, doesn't avoid name collisions, and I'm sure it could be done better -- but this does remove the need to use basename on the find results (in my case) before performing my sed replacement.

I might ask, what are you doing to the found files, exactly?