select all nurb curves that have the label "abc*"

[RedNine]

Not straight out of Maya no. You can do searching in the outliner but not on nodeTypes. Take a look on my blog, theres a link to the Red9StudioPack of tools that has a powerful search tool in it for just this type of thing. Allows you to search on multiple filters at the same time, basically its an intersection search so:

NodeType + NodeName + NodeAttr = found nodes


Red

[ginodauri]

import maya.cmds as mc
import fnmatch
curves=mc.ls(type="nurbsCurve")
filterCurves=fnmatch.filter(curves,"abc*")
[mc.select(i,add=1) for i in filterCurves]

[MegaManZZ]

python looks liek it's the way to go

[NaughtyNathan]

you are all insane.

select `ls -type "nurbsCurve" "abc*"`; // MEL

cmds.select(cmds.ls('abc*',type='nurbsCurve')) # python:nathaN

[ginodauri]

Excellent :)

I know that this is possible in pymel , they mentioned this in documentation.
I thought it was added functionality for maya ls command.

[mduvekot]

You can do this in the Outliner. Go to Show > Objects > NURBS Objects and then limit the listing by entering *abc* in the Outliner's text filter.

[ewerybody]

you are all insane.lol:beer:

But he is probably looking for something like:select (listRelatives("-parent",listRelatives("-shapes","-type","nurbsCurve",`ls -tr "abc*"`)))means:

transforms of ( nurbsCurve shapes of ( transf named abc* ) )

pycode:mc.select(mc.listRelatives(mc.listRelatives(mc.ls('abc*',tr=1),shapes=1, type='nurbsCurve'),parent=1))

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