Question

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)" ...

Update

I guess I should actually be more specific:

This is really what I am doing:

myVar=~/Desktop
<allow user to overwrite default value of myVar>
keytool -keystore "$myVar" ...

I don’t think that it is safe to have $myVar unquoted in the keytool command in case someone puts some malicious code in there.

Answer 1

How about

keytool -keystore "$(echo ~/Desktop)"

or

keytool -keystore "$HOME/Desktop"

But, on the other hand, ~/Desktop should work fine as well. Tried with bash only, don’t have any other Bourne shells here.