I am making an awk command file to run on my UNIX box. I have 2 files:

file 1 file 2

1111 Jones/Ron ,P,2222
2222 Smith/John ,P,7788
3333 Smith/Jim ,P,9999
4444 Carter/Jane ,P,4444

I want to compare these 2 files. If there is anybody in file 2 that has the 3rd field match up with the field in file 1, I want to make a new file with their information.
In this example, I would have a new file (file 3) that would contain:

Jones/Ron ,P,2222
Carter/Jane ,P,4444

I want to be able to do this in the command file format:
example awk -f (name of my awk command file) File 1 > File 3

How do I do this?

Thanks,
Nick

And how would I run this in the command file format?

thanks

Sorry your question is not clear.

Are you looking for something like,

to use the command in a script.awk file... something like that..

then just include the command posted into a script.awk file.

Please forgive me for asking so many questions. I am just learning awk and I have a longgggg way to go.

Ok, so I put your script into an awk file called AWK1. I want to run it like this:

awk -f AWK1 file 2 > file 3

I want the output to go to file 3. I need file 2 to reference file 1. This would be done in your awk script. I don't see the file references in your awk script.

I put examples of file 1 and file 2 in my original post.

file 1 ==> 1
file 2 ==> 2

redirect the output of the awk command to file3

awk command > file 3

nawk -F',' -f nickg.awk file1 file2

nickg.awk: