msg="message"

function check {
    echo $msg | egrep [abc] 1> /dev/null

    if [ $? -ne 1 ];
    then 
        echo "found" 
    else 
        echo "not found" 
    fi
}

check

这将发现a、b或c的任何出现

精确的单词匹配：

string='My long string'
exactSearch='long'

if grep -E -q "\b${exactSearch}\b" <<<${string} >/dev/null 2>&1
  then
    echo "It's there"
  fi

由于POSIX/BusyBox问题在没有提供正确答案（IMHO）的情况下结束，我将在这里发布答案。

最简单的答案是：

[ ${_string_##*$_substring_*} ] || echo Substring found!

or

[ "${_string_##*$_substring_*}" ] || echo 'Substring found!'

注意，对于某些shell（ash），双哈希是必须的。当未找到子字符串时，上面将计算[stringvalue]。它不会返回错误。找到子字符串时，结果为空，其结果为[]。这将抛出错误代码1，因为字符串被完全替换（由于*）。

最短最常见的语法：

[ -z "${_string_##*$_substring_*}" ] && echo 'Substring found!'

or

[ -n "${_string_##*$_substring_*}" ] || echo 'Substring found!'

另一个：

[ "${_string_##$_substring_}" != "$_string_" ] && echo 'Substring found!'

or

[ "${_string_##$_substring_}" = "$_string_" ] || echo 'Substring found!'

注意单个等号！

一个是：

[ $(expr $mystring : ".*${search}.*") -ne 0 ] && echo 'yes' ||  echo 'no'

这个怎么样：

text="   <tag>bmnmn</tag>  "
if [[ "$text" =~ "<tag>" ]]; then
   echo "matched"
else
   echo "not matched"
fi

这里回答的问题的扩展如何判断POSIX sh中的字符串是否包含另一个字符串？：

此解决方案适用于特殊字符：

# contains(string, substring)
#
# Returns 0 if the specified string contains the specified substring,
# otherwise returns 1.
contains() {
    string="$1"
    substring="$2"

    if echo "$string" | $(type -p ggrep grep | head -1) -F -- "$substring" >/dev/null; then
        return 0    # $substring is in $string
    else
        return 1    # $substring is not in $string
    fi
}

contains "abcd" "e" || echo "abcd does not contain e"
contains "abcd" "ab" && echo "abcd contains ab"
contains "abcd" "bc" && echo "abcd contains bc"
contains "abcd" "cd" && echo "abcd contains cd"
contains "abcd" "abcd" && echo "abcd contains abcd"
contains "" "" && echo "empty string contains empty string"
contains "a" "" && echo "a contains empty string"
contains "" "a" || echo "empty string does not contain a"
contains "abcd efgh" "cd ef" && echo "abcd efgh contains cd ef"
contains "abcd efgh" " " && echo "abcd efgh contains a space"

contains "abcd [efg] hij" "[efg]" && echo "abcd [efg] hij contains [efg]"
contains "abcd [efg] hij" "[effg]" || echo "abcd [efg] hij does not contain [effg]"

contains "abcd *efg* hij" "*efg*" && echo "abcd *efg* hij contains *efg*"
contains "abcd *efg* hij" "d *efg* h" && echo "abcd *efg* hij contains d *efg* h"
contains "abcd *efg* hij" "*effg*" || echo "abcd *efg* hij does not contain *effg*"