Finding the path to a executable?

Alan alanpotteiger at gmail.com
Tue Aug 6 23:31:49 PDT 2013


On Wednesday, 7 August 2013 at 06:25:26 UTC, Andre Artus wrote:
> On Wednesday, 7 August 2013 at 06:10:35 UTC, Alan wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 7 August 2013 at 06:08:44 UTC, Andre Artus wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 7 August 2013 at 05:31:24 UTC, Alan wrote:
>>>> Hello!  This may seem like a simple question, maybe an 
>>>> embarassing question but how would I fetch the absolute path 
>>>> to the directory where my executable is located?  My wording 
>>>> is known to be confusing so I will give an example:
>>>>
>>>> cd ~/projects/program
>>>> dmd Program.d -ofProgram
>>>>
>>>> That executable would be located in 
>>>> /home/alan/projects/program for example.  SO my question is 
>>>> how would I fetch the absolute path to that directory?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any help!
>>>
>>> Is this what you are looking for?
>>>
>>> find ~/projects/program/ -type f -perm +111
>>> or
>>> ls -d -1 ~/projects/program/*
>>
>> No sorry, I meant how to find the directory in D code.
>
>
> Sorry, I misunderstood.

You're fine!  Thanks for trying though!


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