以下是我对这个问题的看法。以下是简短的版本:

function arrayContains() {
        local haystack=${!1}
        local needle="$2"
        printf "%s\n" ${haystack[@]} | grep -q "^$needle$"
}

长一点的版本，我觉得看起来更舒服。

# With added utility function.
function arrayToLines() {
        local array=${!1}
        printf "%s\n" ${array[@]}
}

function arrayContains() {
        local haystack=${!1}
        local needle="$2"
        arrayToLines haystack[@] | grep -q "^$needle$"
}

例子:

test_arr=("hello" "world")
arrayContains test_arr[@] hello; # True
arrayContains test_arr[@] world; # True
arrayContains test_arr[@] "hello world"; # False
arrayContains test_arr[@] "hell"; # False
arrayContains test_arr[@] ""; # False

: NeedleInArgs "$needle" "${haystack[@]}"
: NeedleInArgs "$needle" arg1 arg2 .. argN
NeedleInArgs()
{
local a b;
printf -va '\n%q\n' "$1";
printf -vb '%q\n' "${@:2}";
case $'\n'"$b" in (*"$a"*) return 0;; esac;
return 1;
}

使用:

NeedleInArgs "$needle" "${haystack[@]}" && echo "$needle" found || echo "$needle" not found;

对于bash v3.1及以上版本(printf -v支持) 没有分叉，也没有外部程序 没有循环(除了bash中的内部扩展) 适用于所有可能的值和数组，没有异常，没有什么可担心的

也可以直接使用，比如:

if      NeedleInArgs "$input" value1 value2 value3 value4;
then
        : input from the list;
else
        : input not from list;
fi;

对于从v20.5 b到v3.0的bash, printf缺少-v，因此需要额外的2个fork(但不需要执行，因为printf是bash内置的):

NeedleInArgs()
{
case $'\n'"`printf '%q\n' "${@:2}"`" in
(*"`printf '\n%q\n' "$1"`"*) return 0;;
esac;
return 1;
}

注意，我测试了时间:

check call0:  n: t4.43 u4.41 s0.00 f: t3.65 u3.64 s0.00 l: t4.91 u4.90 s0.00 N: t5.28 u5.27 s0.00 F: t2.38 u2.38 s0.00 L: t5.20 u5.20 s0.00
check call1:  n: t3.41 u3.40 s0.00 f: t2.86 u2.84 s0.01 l: t3.72 u3.69 s0.02 N: t4.01 u4.00 s0.00 F: t1.15 u1.15 s0.00 L: t4.05 u4.05 s0.00
check call2:  n: t3.52 u3.50 s0.01 f: t3.74 u3.73 s0.00 l: t3.82 u3.80 s0.01 N: t2.67 u2.67 s0.00 F: t2.64 u2.64 s0.00 L: t2.68 u2.68 s0.00

Call0和call1是对另一个快速pure-bash变体调用的不同变体 Call2在这里。 N=notfound F=firstmatch L=lastmatch 小写字母为短数组，大写字母为长数组

正如您所看到的，这里的这个变体有一个非常稳定的运行时，所以它不太依赖于匹配位置。运行时主要由数组长度决定。搜索变量的运行时高度依赖于匹配位置。所以在边缘情况下，这个变体可以(快得多)。

但非常重要的是，搜索变量的RAM效率更高，因为这里的这个变量总是将整个数组转换为一个大字符串。

所以如果你的内存很紧，你希望大部分比赛都是早期的，那么就不要在这里使用这个。但是，如果您想要一个可预测的运行时，有很长的数组来匹配(期望延迟或根本不匹配)，并且双RAM使用也不是太大的问题，那么这里有一些优势。

定时测试脚本:

in_array()
{
    local needle="$1" arrref="$2[@]" item
    for item in "${!arrref}"; do
        [[ "${item}" == "${needle}" ]] && return 0
    done
    return 1
}

NeedleInArgs()
{
local a b;
printf -va '\n%q\n' "$1";
printf -vb '%q\n' "${@:2}";
case $'\n'"$b" in (*"$a"*) return 0;; esac;
return 1;
}

loop1() { for a in {1..100000}; do "$@"; done }
loop2() { for a in {1..1000}; do "$@"; done }

run()
{
  needle="$5"
  arr=("${@:6}")

  out="$( ( time -p "loop$2" "$3" ) 2>&1 )"

  ret="$?"
  got="${out}"
  syst="${got##*sys }"
  got="${got%"sys $syst"}"
  got="${got%$'\n'}"
  user="${got##*user }"
  got="${got%"user $user"}"
  got="${got%$'\n'}"
  real="${got##*real }"
  got="${got%"real $real"}"
  got="${got%$'\n'}"
  printf ' %s: t%q u%q s%q' "$1" "$real" "$user" "$syst"
  [ -z "$rest" ] && [ "$ret" = "$4" ] && return
  printf 'FAIL! expected %q got %q\n' "$4" "$ret"
  printf 'call:   %q\n' "$3"
  printf 'out:    %q\n' "$out"
  printf 'rest:   %q\n' "$rest"
  printf 'needle: %q\n' "$5"
  printf 'arr:   '; printf ' %q' "${@:6}"; printf '\n'
  exit 1
}

check()
{
  printf 'check %q: ' "$1"
  run n 1 "$1" 1 needle a b c d
  run f 1 "$1" 0 needle needle a b c d
  run l 1 "$1" 0 needle a b c d needle
  run N 2 "$1" 1 needle "${rnd[@]}"
  run F 2 "$1" 0 needle needle "${rnd[@]}"
  run L 2 "$1" 0 needle "${rnd[@]}" needle
  printf '\n'
}

call0() { chk=("${arr[@]}"); in_array "$needle" chk; }
call1() { in_array "$needle" arr; }
call2() { NeedleInArgs "$needle" "${arr[@]}"; }

rnd=()
for a in {1..1000}; do rnd+=("$a"); done

check call0
check call1
check call2

我通常编写这类实用程序来操作变量的名称，而不是变量的值，这主要是因为bash不能通过引用传递变量。

下面是一个使用数组名称的版本:

function array_contains # array value
{
    [[ -n "$1" && -n "$2" ]] || {
        echo "usage: array_contains <array> <value>"
        echo "Returns 0 if array contains value, 1 otherwise"
        return 2
    }

    eval 'local values=("${'$1'[@]}")'

    local element
    for element in "${values[@]}"; do
        [[ "$element" == "$2" ]] && return 0
    done
    return 1
}

这样，问题示例就变成:

array_contains A "one" && echo "contains one"

etc.

借鉴Dennis Williamson的答案，下面的解决方案结合了数组、shell-safe引号和正则表达式，以避免需要:遍历循环;使用管道或其他子过程;或者使用非bash实用程序。

declare -a array=('hello, stack' one 'two words' words last)
printf -v array_str -- ',,%q' "${array[@]}"

if [[ "${array_str},," =~ ,,words,, ]]
then
   echo 'Matches'
else
   echo "Doesn't match"
fi

上面的代码通过使用Bash正则表达式来匹配数组内容的字符串化版本。有六个重要的步骤来确保正则表达式匹配不会被数组中的值的巧妙组合所欺骗:

Construct the comparison string by using Bash's built-in printf shell-quoting, %q. Shell-quoting will ensure that special characters become "shell-safe" by being escaped with backslash \. Choose a special character to serve as a value delimiter. The delimiter HAS to be one of the special characters that will become escaped when using %q; that's the only way to guarantee that values within the array can't be constructed in clever ways to fool the regular expression match. I choose comma , because that character is the safest when eval'd or misused in an otherwise unexpected way. Combine all array elements into a single string, using two instances of the special character to serve as delimiter. Using comma as an example, I used ,,%q as the argument to printf. This is important because two instances of the special character can only appear next to each other when they appear as the delimiter; all other instances of the special character will be escaped. Append two trailing instances of the delimiter to the string, to allow matches against the last element of the array. Thus, instead of comparing against ${array_str}, compare against ${array_str},,. If the target string you're searching for is supplied by a user variable, you must escape all instances of the special character with a backslash. Otherwise, the regular expression match becomes vulnerable to being fooled by cleverly-crafted array elements. Perform a Bash regular expression match against the string.

OP自己添加了以下答案，并附上了评论:

在回答和评论的帮助下，经过一些测试，我得出了这个结论:

function contains() {
    local n=$#
    local value=${!n}
    for ((i=1;i < $#;i++)) {
        if [ "${!i}" == "${value}" ]; then
            echo "y"
            return 0
        fi
    }
    echo "n"
    return 1
}

A=("one" "two" "three four")
if [ $(contains "${A[@]}" "one") == "y" ]; then
    echo "contains one"
fi
if [ $(contains "${A[@]}" "three") == "y" ]; then
    echo "contains three"
fi

for i in "${array[@]}"
do
    if [ "$i" -eq "$yourValue" ] ; then
        echo "Found"
    fi
done

字符串:

for i in "${array[@]}"
do
    if [ "$i" == "$yourValue" ] ; then
        echo "Found"
    fi
done