shell script fun! performing action on each subdirectory from a given path

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I am writing a shell script (which I suck at) and I need some help. Its a script that is moving things from git to CVS (not important). The thing is, i a file path:

controllers/listbuilder/setup/SubmissionRolesListbuilderHandler.inc.php

and I need to be able to do:

cvs add controllers;
cvs add controllers/listbuilder;
cvs add controllers/listbuilder/setup;
cvs add controllers/listbuilder/setup/SubmissionRolesListbuilderHandler.inc.php

Can someone help me out? The best I've come up with so far is to recursively add ALL files in my working tree, but that seems overly inefficient.

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