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That's a slight fallacy known as useless use of ls * (http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html#ls), it's not ls that understands what * means -- it's the shell itself. That's why * works the same way...

What are the exact contents of this TRANSFERRING_FNAME? abc*.dat is not regular expression, it's a glob -- try to interpret it as a regex and it will work wrong. It will match abc.dat, abcadat,...

Just look for - at the beginning of the line and print the fields you want.

awk '/^-/ { print $9 "|" $5 }' datafile