Finding the path to a executable?

[Andre Artus]

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/*