executing filename with ~ in perl

I have the following

$x = ~rambo/bin/script1; (where script1 is an executable shell script)

$ret = `x`;

The above will not work.

However if I define

$x = /home/apple/rambo/bin/script1; (ie I give a full pathname)

$ret = `x`;

This will work.

How do I make the first example work? By the way, I am on an unix machine



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