AIX

I have setof files with data and with same fields multiple times in each of the files.
for example:
file 1

name = mary kate
last name = kate
address = 123
street = abc

name = mary mark
last name = mark
address = 456
street = bcd

file 2
name = mary kate
last name = kate
address = 123
street = abc

name = thomas Train
last name = Train
address = 091
street= zxc

I used grep and awk, to grep the field and print the data using awk
but I am not knowing how to use grep and awk to print from dirrent files at the same time.. all these files begin with filename.dat and reside in one directory

What I did was :
grep "^last name" *filename.dat | awk -F ":" '{print $1 $2}' > tempfile1

this doesn't give what I want

what I am looking for is an output like

filename:last name:address
file1:kate:123

Any help is really appreciated
Thanks

try this:

Code:

awk -F "=" '
$0 ~ /last name/ {n=$2;pn=1}
$0 ~ /address/ {a=$2;an=1};pn == 1 && an == 1{print FILENAME,n,a;pn=0;an=0}' OFS=":" file1 file2

op:
file1: kate: 123
file1: mark: 456
file2: kate: 123
file2: Train: 091


cheers,
Devaraj Takhellambam

Thanks this helps