Indenting multi-line output in a shell script

Question

I\'m trying to change the message of the day (MOTD) on my Ubuntu Amazon EC2 box so that it will display the git status of one of my directories when I SSH in.

The output

Answer 1

Building on @Barmar's answer, this is a tidier way to do it:

indent() { sed 's/^/  /'; }

git status | indent
other_command | indent