How to find duplicates names of obj in a scene

[labchild]

hi guys,
basically i want to find all duplicate names of objects in a scene(like when you have two groups and in those groups it has same named objects in either group) and select them so that i can use a "rename" script and change them so they are unique,, thx in adv

[gmask]

IN Maya 5 you can use an * in the sel field at the top of the GUI and a keyword to pattern match and select files.

[labchild]

thx for Q reply gmask, -the scene i have is so large that i might not know what to search for in order to see & rename the duplicates in a unique way,i know about that select "name"command which is useful way of searching but i need to find and sel all duplicates in scene;kind of like a >' make an array and store all object names in the scene' etc then run thru array and select&show all the duplicate names so that i can run a renamer script to make them all unique ?. its just that at the moment i have a vlarge mentalray scene (film project) which seems to hang when we dont make the names unique>??when we do rename it seems to work? hope that makes more sense? thx

[northerndigitals]

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[macaronikazoo]

thats an enormously slow way of doing the test (at least for even vaguely large scenes).

but i have the same problem. maya has a stupid bug that if you have two objects with the same name, and you hit "set keyframe" on one, it actually creates a key on all objects with the same name. so having unique names really is pretty important. I kinda wish maya still forced unique node names, no matter what...

if anyone comes up with a solution, please do share.