Interactive shell script to move ("mv") contents of folder, to a new folder

I understand the echo and read commands, but what follows "read" for /pathtofolder.

Basically I want to input a user's current local home directory path and have the contents be moved (not copied) to another (newly create) user's home folder (replacing the contents, then do the subsequent chown -R command.

I can do all of this in the GUI as Root user, but not sure with terminal commands in an interactive script.

thanks in advance

jk