A useful idiom to find the driver pin for a net is the following.
get_pins -of_objects [get_net net_name] -filter direction == output
This should be get_pins -of_objects [get_net net_name] -filter "direction == output", I think. Using the line directly results in obscure errors like
Warning: fast_characterise.tcl line 12, patterns argument not supported with -of_objects.
Error: fast_characterise.tcl line 12, unsupported pin -filter expression.
This should be
get_pins -of_objects [get_net net_name] -filter "direction == output"
, I think. Using the line directly results in obscure errors like