I learnt from K&R among others and like S Litt I dislike things like convoluted one liners. One was supposedly by Dennis Ritchie if I recall correctly which took writing it into multiple lines to understand it.

> $ man strcpy

Have you heard of strlcpy?

https://www.openbsd.org/papers/strlcpy-paper.pdf
https://man.openbsd.org/strlcpy

regards, kc