Nuke’s Search feature allows you to search for nodes in your script and select any matches found. As a search string, you can enter all or part of a node name. For example, you can search for all Blur nodes in your script by entering bl as the search string.
Using regular expressions, you can also do more complex searches, such as searching for all the Read and Write nodes in a script.
| 1. | Select Edit > Search (or press /) to bring up the search dialog. |
| 2. | In the search field, enter the string you want to search for. |
If you want to search for all nodes in the script, enter * (an asterisk).
If you want to search for all Read nodes in the script, enter Read.
If you want to search for all the Read and Write nodes, enter the following expression:
(*Read*|*Write*)
| 3. | Click OK. |
Nuke searches for the nodes in the script and selects all matches it finds and focuses the Node Graph the first of them. If you perform the same search again, the Node Graph view focuses on the next node in order. For instance, if you have a ColorBars node, a ColorWheel node and a ColorCorrect node in your Node Graph, searching for “Color” three times in a row selects all of these nodes and focuses on each of them in alphabetical order.
NOTE: When you enter expressions in the search dialog, remember that the search field only takes regular expressions. Any characters that have specific meanings in regular expressions, such as [ and ], need to be preceded by the \ character.