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Is there a wrapper or a method to force the output of another program (let's say 7zip) inside a bash script to be formatted in a given way, say, coloured or indented? Or even run in a separate small graphical window? For example:

Current:

Welcome to program X v0.0.0
Packing file abc.xyz 10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...done
Exit. Good bye.

Expected:

Welcome to program X v0.0.0
   Packing file abc.xyz
   10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...done
Exit. Good bye.

Where the "Packing"... etc. is the output from this program.

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GRC (generic colorizer) worth trying http://korpus.juls.savba.sk/~garabik/software/grc.html

By providing some regular expressions and color instruction codes in its configuration file, can have any output colorized. Example for traceroute below.

grc traceroute example

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For coloring output, have a look at ccze, it's a log colorizer.

For indenting, you might try using awk depending on what you want indented and how. I don't think there are simpler tools.

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    Can you at least give an example? Commented Aug 11, 2015 at 11:04

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