How to select a random item from an array in shell

I'm creating a bot in Shell Script:

# Array with expressions
expressions=("Ploink Poink" "I Need Oil" "Some Bytes are Missing!" "Poink Poink" "Piiiip Beeeep!!" "Hello" "Whoops! I'm out of memmory!")

# Seed random generator
RANDOM=$$$(date +%s)

# Loop loop loop loop loop loop ...
while [ 1 ]
do
    # Get random expression...
    selectedexpression=${expressions[$RANDOM % ${#RANDOM[*]}]}
    
    # Write to Shell
    echo $selectedexpression
    
    
    # Wait an half hour
    sleep 1 # It's one second for debugging, dear SOers
done

I want that it prints a random item from the expressions every second. I tried this but it does not work. It only prints the first one (Ploink Poink) every time. Can anyone help me out? Thanks

Change the line where you define selectedexpression to

selectedexpression=${expressions[ $RANDOM % ${#expressions[@]} ]}

You want your index into expression to be a random number from 0 to the length of the expression array. This will do that.

arr[0]="Ploink Poink"
arr[1]="I Need Oil"
arr[2]="Some Bytes are Missing!"
arr[3]="Poink Poink"
arr[4]="Piiiip Beeeep!!"
arr[5]="Hello"
arr[6]="Whoops! I'm out of memmory!"
rand=$[$RANDOM % ${#arr[@]}]
echo $(date)
echo ${arr[$rand]}

Here's another solution that may be a bit more random than Jacob Mattison's solution (hard to say from the jot manpages):

declare -a expressions=('Ploink' 'I Need Oil' 'Some Bytes are Missing' 'Poink Poink' 'Piiiip Beeeep' 'Hello' 'Whoops I am out of memory')
index=$( jot -r 1  0 $((${#expressions[@]} - 1)) )
selected_expression=${expressions[index]}

Solution using shuf:

expressions=("Ploink Poink" "I Need Oil" "Some Bytes are Missing!" "Poink Poink" "Piiiip Beeeep!!" "Hello" "Whoops! I'm out of memmory!")
selectedexpression=$(printf "%s\n" "${expressions[@]}" | shuf -n1)
echo $selectedexpression

Or probably better:

select_random() {
    printf "%s\0" "$@" | shuf -z -n1 | tr -d '\0'
}

expressions=("Ploink Poink" "I Need Oil" "Some Bytes are Missing!" "Poink Poink" "Piiiip Beeeep!!" "Hello" "Whoops! I'm out of memmory!")
selectedexpression=$(select_random "${expressions[@]}")
echo "$selectedexpression"

for random

rand=("q" "w") 

r=$(shuf -i 0-${#jndi[@]} -n 1)
echo ${rand[$r]}

2. echo $((1 + $RAND % 5)) // for number between 1..5