Re: How to detect which user is connected to $DISPLAY

[Sean Perry <shaleh@speakeasy.net>]

sean finney wrote:
> 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.