Linux Shell Script For Each File in a Directory Grab the filename and execute a program

Question

Scenario :

A folder in Linux system. I want to loop through every .xls file in a folder.

This folder typically consists of various folders, various filetypes

Answer 1

find . -type f -name "*.xls" -printf "xls2csv %p %p.csv\n" | bash

bash 4 (recursive)

shopt -s globstar
for xls in /path/**/*.xls
do
  xls2csv "$xls" "${xls%.xls}.csv"
done