#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Cwd;

my $command = shift;

apply( @ARGV );

# takes a directory to start in, and a command
# to apply recursively
sub apply {
  my $curdir = cwd;

  my ( $dir, $command ) = @_;

  return unless chdir $dir;
  system $command;

  if ( not opendir DIR, '.' ) {
    chdir $curdir;
    return;
  }
  my @children = grep { -d && !/^\.\.?$/ } readdir DIR;
  closedir DIR;

  for my $child ( @children ) {
    apply( $command, $child );
  }

  chdir $curdir;
}
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Then you execute it like: ./sweep 'dir' 'command -with args'