I wholeheartedly agree with this blog post. I believe someone on here yesterday was asking about config file locations and setting them manually. This is in the same vein. I can’t tell you how many times a command line method for discovering the location of a config file would have saved me 30 minutes of googling.
I agree. Usually I’m referring to a user installed local application. So if the executable is in your home directory likely it’s in the same directory as the exe.