This seemed to do the trick. I didn't really want to use find() with an absolute path if the user specified a relative path, as I wanted the value of $name to be relative if relative was supplied on the command line. I had a strong feeling that the problem was in how I was calling rel2abs, but couldn't figure out exactly how. Thanks to all that replied.

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