Document what remains to do in "Partially done" commands

[pfmoore]

There appears to be a lot of variation in how complete the "partially done" commands are. For example od seems fairly complete, but date doesn't even support simple usages like date +%Y%m%d, and sort seems to have a good selection of options, but is missing some relatively important ones like sort keys.

It would be really useful if there were some documentation clarifying how complete the partially done commands are, to help people understand what's available (I am looking for Windows equivalents of Unix commands, and would, for example, use this project for many of them, but would probably not install date as it stands, or only make it available via the uutils command).

[Arcterus]

This is something I have been meaning to do. I'll see if I can get this done in the next few weeks or so.

[stale]

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[ryantig]

Maybe the stale bot is a little too quick to close? I think this is an item that would still be really helpful to see progress on. :)

[sylvestre]

Too quick, I am not sure :) Reopen is cheap!

[tertsdiepraam]

I think we can close this. Not because it's been fixed necessarily, but because we document missing features in other ways.

Let me start of by saying that I've always found the "partially done" divide a bit arbitrary. It's not been kept up to date at all, I believe. The list has been composed fairly arbitrarily over the years and the reasoning has not been recorded as far as I know. That is why I've removed the list in #4511.

However, it is important to keep track of what remains to be done! So that's why we keep those things in issues. For example, say you want to know what remains to be done for ls. You could look at:

• the ls tracking issue: ls: Compatibility Tracking Issue #1872
• issues with the U - ls label: U - ls
• GNU test coverage: https://uutils.github.io/user/test_coverage.html
• TODO's in the source code.