[gwu78]

https://github.com/skarnet/execline/raw/master/src/execline/...

https://github.com/skarnet/execline/raw/master/src/libexecli...

Simple.

http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/argmax/

   execlineb -c 'elglob a /*/*/*/* ls $a'

(statically-linked execlineb)

If I am not mistken, ARG_MAX will be the limit.

Straightforward.

[JdeBP]

That's a wrapper around the C library's glob() function, which is what the headlined article was looking at. What point are you trying to make?