How to Select a Div by its name?

How to Select a Div by its name?

var tabToShow = "$_GET['TABHREFPOINTSTO'];

var tabContainers = $('div.tabs > div:not(tabToShow)');
::The above line isn't working, I want tabContainers to contain all child divs of the div tabs, except for the div identified in var tabToShow

tabContainers2.hide().filter(tablink.hash).show();

I then need to show the div identified by tabToShow..

Any help would be really appreciated. Any good jquery documentation around, I find the stuff at jquery.com a bit short.