How do I get the path of a process in Unix / Linux?

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On Linux, the symlink /proc/<pid>/exe has the path of the executable. Use the command readlink -f /proc/<pid>/exe to get the value.

On AIX, this file does not exist. You could compare cksum <actual path to binary> and cksum /proc/<pid>/object/a.out.

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