Bourne Shell: Convert ~/Desktop to /users/me/Desktop

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Incredably annoyed at the Java Keytool. So much so that I have created a new tag: "SunSuck".

The keytool does not resolve impartial directories. Ie this works:

keytool -keystore "/users/me/Desktop" ...

This doesn't:

keytool -keystore "~/Desktop" ...

Is there something that I could call like this:

keytool -keystore "$(<cmd> ~/Desktop)" ...

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