# Select With Full Dag Path
**URL:** https://forum.highend3d.com/t/select-with-full-dag-path/2200
**Category:** Maya
**Tags:** mel
**Created:** [May 23, 2007, 10:13am UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/select-with-full-dag-path/2200 "2007-05-23T10:13:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@richie-m](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/richie-m)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2007, 10:13am UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/select-with-full-dag-path/2200/1 "2007-05-23T10:13:54Z")
Hey!
I've got a question, say I have a skeleton under a group node and i duplicate this group node - is there a quick way to select a certain joint in the skeleton under a certain group node without having to use full dag paths...
i.e.
[codebox]
groupA -\>
jointA -\>
jointB -\>
jointC
groupB -\>
jointA -\>
jointB -\>
jointC
[/codebox]
where groupB is a duplicate of groupA...
i would like to select - say jointC under groupB without knowing the full dag path - i.e. something like this
[codebox]
select -r groupB|\*|jointC
[/codebox]
i know this syntax is incorrect but is there a quick way to do this?
or can i only search the hierarchy under the group?
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### Author:  [@joojaa](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/joojaa)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2007, 10:36am UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/select-with-full-dag-path/2200/2 "2007-05-23T10:36:36Z")
list by name and use gmatch on all returned ones?
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### Author:  [@richie-m](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/richie-m)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2007, 10:36am UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/select-with-full-dag-path/2200/3 "2007-05-23T10:36:55Z")
sorry my title is wrong! its meant to be "select without dag path"
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### Author:  [@richie-m](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/richie-m)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2007, 10:37am UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/select-with-full-dag-path/2200/4 "2007-05-23T10:37:53Z")
hey Joojaa, sorry i didnt see your reply!
yeah i guess this is a stupid quetsion - i should just go in and search the hierarchy....
thanks for help!
mmm - sorry to be an idiot!
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### Author:  [@richie-m](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/richie-m)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2007, 10:40am UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/select-with-full-dag-path/2200/5 "2007-05-23T10:40:16Z")
btw this might be a good idea for a custom "select" command...
i.e.
[codebox]
cSelect groupNode|\*|iWantToFindThis
[/codebox]
actually not a bad idea... i guess if i get time later ill write one!
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### Author:  [@joojaa](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/joojaa)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2007, 11:22am UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/select-with-full-dag-path/2200/6 "2007-05-23T11:22:28Z")
QUOTE(richie\_m @ 05/23/07, 01:37 PM) [snapback]266506[/snapback]
yeah i guess this is a stupid quetsion - i should just go in and search the hierarchy....
why just las the last part and gmatch all the returns towards your string. or use ls trough filter.
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### Author:  [@richie-m](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/richie-m)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2007, 12:40pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/select-with-full-dag-path/2200/7 "2007-05-23T12:40:14Z")
hey Joojaa, thats what im doing! ![]()
sorry if I didn't make myself clear! it actually works great!