I want to call dscanner 73 times in succession, because I can't pass it a source directory to recursively scan without it failing an assert parsing one of the files. ([dscanner #931](https://github.com/dlang-community/D-Scanner/issues/931))

I want to do it in a CI build/test script, so I thought I'd just make it `dub run dscanner -- -S --skipTests [...]` and avoid having to clone the dscanner repo and build it manually, but it's slow. It's slow even if I add `--nodeps` after the first build. On my local machine I can install dscanner from repositories, which is as fast as I expect it to be, but on CI I'm a bit more limited.

Simplified:

```
$ time ( for f in source/**/*.d; do dub run dscanner --nodeps --vquiet -- -S --skipTests $f; done )
7,87s  user 3,33s system 99% cpu 11,304 total

$ time ( for f in source/**/*.d; do /usr/bin/dscanner -S --skipTests $f; done )
1,28s  user 0,45s system 100% cpu 1,725 total
```

I *can* clone the dscanner repo and build it myself. I can think of plenty of workarounds. I can even delete or rename the offending file causing the assert before scanning.

But is there anything non-invasive I can do that lets me keep `dub run`? I don't see a way to query dub for the path to the already-built executable. There is a `--force` flag to make it always rebuild, but no inverse `--trust-me-its-okay-just-run-the-thing` flag.

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