不使用外部命令:

$ FOO=( a b c )     # initialize the array
$ BAR=${FOO[@]}     # create a space delimited string from array
$ BAZ=${BAR// /,}   # use parameter expansion to substitute spaces with comma
$ echo $BAZ
a,b,c

警告，它假设元素没有空格。

$ set a 'b c' d

$ history -p "$@" | paste -sd,
a,b c,d

也许,例如,

SAVE_IFS="$IFS"
IFS=","
FOOJOIN="${FOO[*]}"
IFS="$SAVE_IFS"

echo "$FOOJOIN"

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}"
}

现在我用的是:

TO_IGNORE=(
    E201 # Whitespace after '('
    E301 # Expected N blank lines, found M
    E303 # Too many blank lines (pep8 gets confused by comments)
)
ARGS="--ignore `echo ${TO_IGNORE[@]} | tr ' ' ','`"

这是可行的，但是(在一般情况下)如果数组元素中有空格，将会严重破坏。

(对于那些感兴趣的人，这是一个围绕pep8.py的包装器脚本)

使用perl实现多字符分隔符:

function join {
   perl -e '$s = shift @ARGV; print join($s, @ARGV);' "$@"; 
}

join ', ' a b c # a, b, c

或者在一行中:

perl -le 'print join(shift, @ARGV);' ', ' 1 2 3
1, 2, 3