date timestamp

DATE=`date "+%Y-%m-%d"`

get last directory in path

PTHVAR="/path/to/folder"
LSTFLDR=$( basename $PTHVAR)

echo $LSTFLDR

cp path/filenames

#!/bin/sh

mkdir -p output-dir
rm -rf output-dir/*

cp -r ./test-dir-01 output-dir/

mkdir -p output-dir
rm -rf output-dir/*

mkdir tmp_dest-dir
cd tmp_dest-dir

cp -r ../test-dir-01 ../output-dir/

cd ../
rm -rf tmp_dest-dir