commit fe967bddbd74af9aba435900878397c0c7ea0b0b
Author: Ruediger Oertel <ro@suse.de>
Date:   Mon Feb 24 11:00:39 2020 +0100

    added "-h"/"--help" to "old" command (from Bernhard Lang)

diff --git a/files/usr/bin/old b/files/usr/bin/old
index ef2e2b7..5c55aa4 100755
--- a/files/usr/bin/old
+++ b/files/usr/bin/old
@@ -5,22 +5,33 @@
 #
 # Copyright (c) 1996-2002 SuSE Linux AG, Nuernberg, Germany.
 #
-# please send bugfixes or comments to http://www.suse.de/feedback.
+# Contributor Bernard Lang
 #
+# please send bugfixes or comments to
+# https://github.com/openSUSE/aaa_base/issues
 #
 # usage - tell user to use program
 #
+# Trick : put a nonexistant file name as first argument if you are worried
+# about the possibility of files called -h or --help
+#
 
 usage() {
     echo usage: "$0" file\|dir [file\|dir ...]
 }
 
-
 if [ $# -eq 0 ] ; then
     usage
     exit
 fi
 
+if [ "$1" = "-h" -o "$1" = "--help" ] ; then
+    echo 'Renames file or directory <name> given in argument list to <name>-<date>[<num>]'
+    echo 'adding when necessary a suffix number <num> to avoid already used names.'
+    usage
+    exit
+fi
+
 DATESTRING=`date +"%Y%m%d"`
 
 for i in "$@" ; do
@@ -33,6 +44,10 @@ for i in "$@" ; do
             let NUMBER=$NUMBER+1
         done
         echo moving "$i" to "$NEWNAME"
+	if [ "${i:0:1}" = "-" ] ; then
+	    i="./$i"
+	    NEWNAME="./$NEWNAME"
+	fi
         mv "$i" "$NEWNAME"
     else
         echo "$i" does not exist.