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Awk - output the second line of a number of .dat files to one file

I have multiple files something like: (in reality i have 80) file1.dat 2 5 6 9 7 1 file2.dat 3 7 8 4 1 3 I want to end up with a file containing all of the second lines. i.e. output.dat 6 …
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