Best way to choose a random file from a directory in a shell script

Question

What is the best way to choose a random file from a directory in a shell script?

Here is my solution in Bash but I would be very interested for a more portable (non-

Answer 1

Newlines in file-names can be avoided by doing the following in Bash:

#!/bin/sh

OLDIFS=$IFS
IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b")

DIR="/home/user"

for file in $(ls -1 $DIR)
do
    echo $file
done

IFS=$OLDIFS