Concatenate text files with Windows command line, dropping leading lines

Question

I need to concatenate some relatively large text files, and would prefer to do this via the command line. Unfortunately I only have Windows, and cannot install new software.

Answer 1

In powershell:

Get-Content file1.txt | Out-File out.txt
Get-Content file2.txt | Select-Object -Skip 1 | Out-File -Append out.txt

Answer 2

Here's how to do this:

(type file1.txt && more +1 file2.txt) > out.txt

Answer 3

I don't have enough reputation points to comment on the recommendation to use *.csv >> ConcatenatedFile.csv, but I can add a warning:

If you create ConcatenatedFile.csv file in the same directory that you are using for concatenation it will be added to itself.

Answer 4

more +2 file2.txt > temp
type temp file1.txt > out.txt

or you can use copy. See copy /? for more.

copy /b temp+file1.txt  out.txt

Answer 5

I use this, and it works well for me:

TYPE \\Server\Share\Folder\*.csv >> C:\Folder\ConcatenatedFile.csv

Of course, before every run, you have to DELETE C:\Folder\ConcatenatedFile.csv

The only issue is that if all files have headers, then it will be repeated in all files.

Answer 6

This takes Test.txt with headers and appends Test1.txt and Test2.txt and writes results to Testresult.txt file after stripping headers from second and third files respectively:

type C:\Test.txt > C:\Testresult.txt && more +1 C:\Test1.txt >> C:\Testresult.txt && more +1 C:\Test2.txt >> C:\Testresult.txt