How to derive project directory path to a Gradle plugin?

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Gradle v2.9 (Old, we’re upgrading soon)

I’m trying to create a Gradle plugin by following Writing Gradle Plugins. How can I have the plugin “derive” the project’s top directory, that is where build.gradle file is? if the plugin creates an hello task, I want it to do this

$ pwd
$ /some_path/project1
$ ls
build.gradle gradlew gradle gradle.properties src
$ ./gradlew hello
Hello /some_path/project1
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project.rootDir and project.projectDir are what you are looking for