如果你在循环中构建数组，这里有一个简单的方法:

arr=()
for x in $(some_cmd); do
   arr+=($x,)
done
arr[-1]=${arr[-1]%,}
echo ${arr[*]}

$ foo=(a "b c" d)
$ bar=$(IFS=, ; echo "${foo[*]}")
$ echo "$bar"
a,b c,d

还有另一个解决方案:

#!/bin/bash
foo=('foo bar' 'foo baz' 'bar baz')
bar=$(printf ",%s" "${foo[@]}")
bar=${bar:1}

echo $bar

编辑:相同，但用于多字符可变长度分隔符:

#!/bin/bash
separator=")|(" # e.g. constructing regex, pray it does not contain %s
foo=('foo bar' 'foo baz' 'bar baz')
regex="$( printf "${separator}%s" "${foo[@]}" )"
regex="${regex:${#separator}}" # remove leading separator
echo "${regex}"
# Prints: foo bar)|(foo baz)|(bar baz

下面是一个100%纯Bash函数，它可以完成这项工作:

join() {
    # $1 is return variable name
    # $2 is sep
    # $3... are the elements to join
    local retname=$1 sep=$2 ret=$3
    shift 3 || shift $(($#))
    printf -v "$retname" "%s" "$ret${@/#/$sep}"
}

看:

$ a=( one two "three three" four five )
$ join joineda " and " "${a[@]}"
$ echo "$joineda"
one and two and three three and four and five
$ join joinedb randomsep "only one element"
$ echo "$joinedb"
only one element
$ join joinedc randomsep
$ echo "$joinedc"

$ a=( $' stuff with\nnewlines\n' $'and trailing newlines\n\n' )
$ join joineda $'a sep with\nnewlines\n' "${a[@]}"
$ echo "$joineda"
 stuff with
newlines
a sep with
newlines
and trailing newlines


$

这甚至保留了末尾的换行符，并且不需要一个子shell来获得函数的结果。如果你不喜欢printf -v(为什么你不喜欢它?)并传递一个变量名，你当然可以为返回的字符串使用一个全局变量:

join() {
    # $1 is sep
    # $2... are the elements to join
    # return is in global variable join_ret
    local sep=$1 IFS=
    join_ret=$2
    shift 2 || shift $(($#))
    join_ret+="${*/#/$sep}"
}

如果你想要连接的元素不是一个数组，而是一个空格分隔的字符串，你可以这样做:

foo="aa bb cc dd"
bar=`for i in $foo; do printf ",'%s'" $i; done`
bar=${bar:1}
echo $bar
    'aa','bb','cc','dd'

例如，我的用例是，在我的shell脚本中传递一些字符串，我需要使用这个来运行SQL查询:

./my_script "aa bb cc dd"

在my_script中，我需要做“SELECT * FROM表WHERE name In ('aa'，'bb'，'cc'，'dd')。那么上面的命令将是有用的。

顶部答案的简短版本:

joinStrings() { local a=("${@:3}"); printf "%s" "$2${a[@]/#/$1}"; }

用法:

joinStrings "$myDelimiter" "${myArray[@]}"