The task that Wyatt was up against was to create a script that would go through a directory (and optionally it's subdirectories down to a specifiable level) and print the filename, size in bytes and a checksum for each file in that directory.

After thinking about the problem, we decided to script out a solution for only one directory deep and then let an application like find do the directory recursion work for us. It's a much simpler and extensible solution for us this way.