Get path of executable

Question

I know this question has been asked before but I still haven\'t seen a satisfactory answer, or a definitive \"no, this cannot be done\", so I\'ll ask again!

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Answer 1

If using C++17 one can do the following to get the path to the executable.

#include 

std::filesystem::path getExecutablePath()
{
    return std::filesystem::canonical("/proc/self/exe");
}

The above answer has been tested on Debian 10 using G++ 9.3.0