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Here is one way to get this info. This is assuming you want it for the object and not the componenets! (for that it's a little different)

// get the selection
string $sel[]=`ls -sl`;

// assume it's a transform (You will probably want to check this)
// and get it's shape
string $shape[]=`listRelatives -c $sel[0]`;
string $connections[]=`listConnections -s 0 -d 1 -type shadingEngine`;
string $materialConnection[]=`connectionInfo -sfd ($connections[0]+".surfaceShader")`;
string $buffer[];
tokenize($materialConnection[0],".",$buffer);

// the material name is $buffer[0]


Hope that helps
--g

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