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

My 2 cents, with a version that should not break when filenames with special chars exist:

#!/bin/bash --
dir='some/directory'

let number_of_files=$(find "${dir}" -type f -print0 | grep -zc .)
let rand_index=$((1+(RANDOM % number_of_files)))

printf "the randomly-selected file is: "
find "${dir}" -type f -print0 | head -z -n "${rand_index}" | tail -z -n 1
printf "\n"