'#' is special in python, maybe the regex gets post-processed into becoming a comment? Try escaping it.

Strainu

Pe marți, 18 august 2020, John Bray <johnbray822@gmail.com> a scris:
I'd like to get all the redirect pages out of a wiki, but

pwb.py listpages -start:UK -grep:'#REDIRECT' -format:"{page.title}" -get

produces nothing, but

pwb.py listpages -start:UK -grep:'United Kingdom' -format:"{page.title}" -get

produces, as expected

UK
#REDIRECT [[United Kingdom]]

pwb.py listpages -start:UK -grep:'#' -format:"{page.title}" -get

picks up pages with a # in them, but not any of the #REDIRECTs

why isn't -grep just parsing the page fully?

John

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