Recursively run another script on every file in a directory structure. I know you can do the same thing with the "find" command, but the arguments required make my head hurt...

Usage:
(first, name it recurse.pl and put it in a directory in your PATH) 
recurse.pl /complete/path/to/other/script.pl dirname

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or, if you need arguments to your script 
recurse.pl "/complete/path/to/other/script.pl -blah" dirname

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might work (amazing that I haven't tested that).

Assumption:
The other script returns a 0 if it succeeds and something else if it fails. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

#this needs some comments...

chdir $ARGV[1];
@ls_retval = `ls -l`;
shift ( @ls_retval );
foreach $line (@ls_retval) {
    @items = split( /\s+/, $line );
    $first_char = substr( $items[0], 0, 1 );
    if ( $first_char eq 'd' ) {
        print "directory: $items[8]\n";
        print `$0 $ARGV[0] $items[8]`;
    } elsif ( $first_char eq 'l' ) {
        print "link: $items[8]\n";
        print `$0 $ARGV[0] $items[8]`;
    } elsif ( $first_char eq '-' ) {
        print "file: $items[8]\n";
        $action_retval = `$ARGV[0] $items[8]`;
        if ( $action_retval != 0 ) {
            print "Error $action_retval in $items[8]\n";
        } else {
            print "OK $action_retval for $items[8]\n";
        }
    }
}
print "Finished\n";

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