Finding directory containing executable for compiled application

I need to get the path of the executable for a compiled application. This answer appears to solve the problem for Windows, but does not work for Linux

I tried replacing 'path' with 'echo $PATH' but it still doesn't work as the folder where the executable is located is not on the path in Linux.

Is there any alternate solution?

Answer 1

[Harsha Medikonda]

Hi Aditya,

I understand that you are looking for a similar solution of finding the directory containing executable for a compiled application on Linux.

On Linux you can retrieve the directory containing the compiled executable using the following code

   [~,exeloc] = system(sprintf('readlink -f /proc/%d/exe',feature('getpid')));

Regards,

Harsha

[Aditya Desai]

Thank you for the answer. This is almost what I was looking for.

The link '/proc/<pid>/exe' also contains the name of the executable. Thus, I had to run

 [exe_path,~,~]=fileparts(exeloc);

to extract just the directory where the executable is located.

Regards,

Aditya