通用的大海捞针示例下面是变量

#!/bin/bash

needle="a_needle"
haystack="a_needle another_needle a_third_needle"
if [[ $haystack == *"$needle"* ]]; then
    echo "needle found"
else
    echo "needle NOT found"
fi

我不确定是否使用if语句，但您可以使用case语句获得类似的效果：

case "$string" in 
  *foo*)
    # Do stuff
    ;;
esac

如果使用双括号，也可以在case语句外使用Marcus的答案（*通配符）：

string='My long string'
if [[ $string == *"My long"* ]]; then
  echo "It's there!"
fi

注意，针字符串中的空格需要放在双引号之间，*通配符应该放在外面。还要注意，使用了简单的比较运算符（即==），而不是正则表达式运算符=~。

公认的答案是最好的，但由于有不止一种方法可以做到这一点，这里有另一种解决方案：

if [ "$string" != "${string/foo/}" ]; then
    echo "It's there!"
fi

${var/search/replace}是$var，如果找到了第一个搜索实例，则将其替换为replace（它不会更改$var）。如果您试图将foo替换为空，并且字符串发生了更改，那么很明显找到了foo。

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

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*"