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. ``` type file1.txt file2.txt > out.txt ``` allows me to almost get what I want, but I don't want the 1st line of file2.txt to be included in out.txt. I have noticed that `more` has the `+n` option to specify a starting line, but I haven't managed to combine these to get the result I want. I'm aware that this may not be possible in Windows, and I can always edit out.txt by hand to get rid of the line, but is there a simple way of doing it from the command line?

Accepted Answer

```
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
```

Concatenate text files with Windows command line, dropping leading lines

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