Redirect the error output of an AppleScript called through Cmd

General Usage
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The next question (for background see Interpolate into an AppleScript called through Cmd).

When calling AppleScript from the shell, the redirection works as expected:

eben60@Macmini ~ % osascript -e 'POSIX path of (choose folder with prompt "Pick a folder:")'             
2024-12-13 22:29:28.938 osascript[92280:10059569] +[IMKClient subclass]: chose IMKClient_Modern
/Users/eben60/Downloads/2023/

Without redirection: the line starting with 2024-12-13 is “log noise”, the third line is the directory selected.

eben60@Macmini ~ % osascript -e 'POSIX path of (choose folder with prompt "Pick a folder:")'  2> /dev/null
/Users/eben60/Downloads/2023/

With redirection: the error/warning/log message disappears in /dev/null as expected.

Now the same from Julia shell:

julia> script12 = """POSIX path of (choose folder with prompt "Pick a folder:")""";

julia> r12 = readchomp(`osascript -e $script12 2\> /dev/null`); # dialog opens
2024-12-13 22:39:12.192 osascript[92481:10066803] +[IMKClient subclass]: chose IMKClient_Modern

julia> r12
"/Users/eben60/Downloads/2023/"

Redirection ignored :frowning_face:

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Redirection doesn’t work like that in Cmd literals. See the IO redirection section here:

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