The template to display something in progress. and colored message will be displayed when it is finished.

progress-in-shell.sh

#!/bin/sh
# See: http://www.m-bsys.com/linux/echo-color-1

TIME=10

echo -n "starting server"
while [ $TIME -gt 0 ]
do
    echo -n "."
    sleep 1
    TIME=$(expr $TIME - 1)
done
echo -ne " \e[32mDONE\e[m\n" # "Done" is appeared with green color