i invite someone to invent a better way, i'd like to hear it :)
Rather than invoke awk twice, just use awk for everything (-: (I used $DISPLAY for testing)
w | awk "\$3 ~ /$DISPLAY/ {print \$1; exit 0}"Note the escaped '$'s.
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