2018-01-11 This is a way to concatenate mpeg2 (svcd) files: cat part1.mpg part2.mpg | avconv -i - -codec copy -async 25 out.mpg I'm not sure if it is a correct or good one. It just worked well enough for me. Owl102 showed this nice way to do boolean logic in the shell: [0] Instead of setting flag variables to strings like `1' or `0' and compare them, you can set them to ``true'' and ``false'' and let those programs run to return the value, like this: if $SERVERSTATUS && $VPNSTATUS [0] https://debianforum.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=168197&p=1160229#p1160174 http://marmaro.de/lue/ markus schnalke