我相信这是最短的解决方案，正如Benamin W.已经提到的:

(IFS=,; printf %s "${a[*]}")

想要添加，如果你使用zsh，你可以删除子shell:

IFS=, printf %s "${a[*]}"

测试:

a=(1 'a b' 3)
IFS=, printf %s "${a[*]}"
1,a b,3

感谢@gniourf_gniourf对我迄今为止的最佳世界组合的详细评论。很抱歉发布的代码没有完全设计和测试。这是一个更好的尝试。

# join with separator
join_ws() { local d=$1 s=$2; shift 2 && printf %s "$s${@/#/$d}"; }

这种概念上的美是

(still) 100% pure bash ( thanks for explicitly pointing out that printf is a builtin as well. I wasn't aware about this before ... ) works with multi-character delimiters more compact and more complete and this time carefully thought over and long-term stress-tested with random substrings from shell scripts amongst others, covering use of shell special characters or control characters or no characters in both separator and / or parameters, and edge cases, and corner cases and other quibbles like no arguments at all. That doesn't guarantee there is no more bug, but it will be a little harder challenge to find one. BTW, even the currently top voted answers and related suffer from such things like that -e bug ...

附加的例子:

$ join_ws '' a b c
abc
$ join_ws ':' {1,7}{A..C}
1A:1B:1C:7A:7B:7C
$ join_ws -e -e
-e
$ join_ws $'\033[F' $'\n\n\n'  1.  2.  3.  $'\n\n\n\n'
3.
2.
1.
$ join_ws $ 
$

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

我相信这是最短的解决方案，正如Benamin W.已经提到的:

(IFS=,; printf %s "${a[*]}")

想要添加，如果你使用zsh，你可以删除子shell:

IFS=, printf %s "${a[*]}"

测试:

a=(1 'a b' 3)
IFS=, printf %s "${a[*]}"
1,a b,3

顶部答案的简短版本:

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

用法:

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

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