Shell script to duplicate directory, lock one, and

I'm a reporter who works with data sets. Every time I receive a new data set, I do two things immediately: Duplicate the file(s) and lock the originals.

I want to automate that process. By altering a shell script I use to create nested folders for reporting projects and stringing it together with a bunch of commands, I was able to achieve the basic functionality, but it is messy. I would be grateful for your help in streamlining.

Here's what I'm doing now (bear with me and I promise to be as clear as possible):

I download the data to a Desktop folder called "DataInbox" where I also have the following shell script, saved as newdata.sh:

    #!/bin/bash

if [[ -z "${1}" ]]; then
  die "FolderName Required"
fi


/bin/mkdir -p ~/Desktop/DataFarm/$1/{ProtectedOrig,Data}

echo -n "---Data Folder Setup

---Data Introduction

---Data Audit/Manipulation

---Data Queries" > ~/Desktop/DataFarm/$1/Data/DataJournal.txt

By executing bash newdata.sh DirectoryName I create a directory with the subfolders "Data" and "ProtectedOrig" and a text file called "DataJournal.txt" with four headings built in.

Inside the "DataInbox" directory I run this mess, only strung together with &&:

$ ditto NewData/  NewDataCopy

$ bash newdata.sh DirectoryName

$ mv NewData/ /Users/JSG/Desktop/DataFarm/DirectoryName/ProtectedOrig/NewData

$ mv NewDataCopy/ /Users/JSG/Desktop/DataFarm/DirectoryName/Data/NewDataCopy

$ chflags -R uchg /Users/JSG/Desktop/DataFarm/DirectoryName/ProtectedOrig/

Like I said, I'd like to streamline this. In fact, what I'd really like to do is turn the whole thing into a shell script, and I'm struggling to make it work. Thank you in advance from an eager novice.

Not sure if I'm misunderstanding your question, but you want to merge all that into one script like this?

#!/bin/bash

if [[ -z "${1}" ]]; then
  die "FolderName Required"
fi

newDirName="DirectoryName"
newBaseDir="~/Desktop/DataFarm/$1/"
/bin/mkdir -p $newBaseDir/{ProtectedOrig,Data}

echo -n "---Data Folder Setup

---Data Introduction

---Data Audit/Manipulation

---Data Queries" > $newBaseDir/Data/DataJournal.txt

ditto NewData/ NewDataCopy
newdata.sh $newDirName
mv NewData/ $newBaseDir/ProtectedOrig/NewData
mv NewDataCopy/ $newBaseDir/Data/NewDataCopy
chflags -R uchg $newBaseDir/ProtectedOrig/