如果您喜欢正则表达式方法：

string='My string';

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

试试oobash。

它是Bash 4的OO风格字符串库。它支持德语元音变音。它是用巴什语写的。

有许多函数可用：-base64Decode、-base64Encode、-acapital、-center、-charAt、concat、-concontains、-count、-endsWith、-equals、-equalsIgnoreCase、-reverse、-hashCode、-indexOf、-isAlnum、-isAlpha、-isAscii、-isDigit、-isEmpty、-isHexDigit、-isLowerCase、-isSpace、-isPrintable、-isUpperCase、-isVisible、-lastIndexOf、-length、-matches、-replaceAll、-replaceFirst、-startsWith，-substring、-swapCase、-toLowerCase、-toString、-toUpperCase、-trim和-zfill。

查看包含的示例：

[Desktop]$ String a testXccc
[Desktop]$ a.contains tX
true
[Desktop]$ a.contains XtX
false

oobash可在Sourceforge.net上获得。

case $string in (*foo*)
  # Do stuff
esac

这与https://stackoverflow.com/a/229585/11267590.但风格简单，也符合POSIX。

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

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*"

这个怎么样：

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