How do I concatenate two text files in PowerShell?

Question

I am trying to replicate the functionality of the cat command in Unix.

I would like to avoid solutions where I explicitly read both files into variables

Answer 1

You can do something like:

get-content input_file1 > output_file
get-content input_file2 >> output_file

Where > is an alias for "out-file", and >> is an alias for "out-file -append".