Merging Multiple CSV Files without merging the header

You'll need more than the cat command, as described here:

Say you have 3 CSV-files: file1.csv, file2.csv, and file3.csv and want to join them to bigfile.csv and your header is always (only) the first line, then use

either (keep header from first file "file1.csv"):

cat file1.csv <(tail +2 file2.csv) <(tail +2 file3.csv) > bigfile.csv

or (remove header from all files who's names begin with "file"):

awk 'FNR > 1' file*.csv > bigfile.csv

I agree with the top answer but I suggest to extend it with the following scenario (as I can not comment):

If you want the output file to contain header (once) the correct script is:

awk '(NR == 1) || (FNR > 1)' file*.csv > bigfile.csv

FNR represents the number of the processed record in a single file. And NR represents it globally, so first line is accepted and the rest are ignored as before.