awk multiple input files question

[gsopitan]

Please help me out with this; I am trying to run the simple one-liner on multiple input files

awk -F '$2 ~ /^GOOG/ { print FILENAME, $1, $5 }' files

The problem I am having is that I am trying to run this on about 500 files and I don't know how to do that without typing in each filename. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated

 

[Annihilannic]

Does awk -F '$2 ~ /^GOOG/ { print FILENAME, $1, $5 }' * not do what you need?

Annihilannic.

 

[PHV]

Some starting points:
awk -F '$2 ~ /^GOOG/ { print FILENAME, $1, $5 }' *

find . -type f | xargs awk -F '$2 ~ /^GOOG/ { print FILENAME, $1, $5 }'

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[gsopitan]

Thanks, it worked