[Good First Issue] Add File Duplicate Detection

[SthembisoMfusi]

🎯 Issue Description

Detect and handle duplicate files during organization to avoid overwriting.

🚀 What You'll Learn

• File hashing
• Duplicate detection algorithms
• User interaction

📋 Tasks

• Calculate file hashes (MD5 or SHA256)
• Compare files before moving
• Ask user what to do with duplicates
• Add options: skip, rename, overwrite
• Show duplicate file information

🛠️ Files to Modify

• py_sort.py

💡 Hints

• Use hashlib for file hashing
• Read files in chunks for large files
• Provide clear duplicate information

🧪 Testing

# Create duplicate files
cp file1.txt file1_copy.txt
python py_sort.py ~/Downloads

📚 Resources

• hashlib library

❓ Questions?

Feel free to ask questions in the comments or start a discussion!

[guysa-AMG]

morning @SthembisoMfusi could you please assign me to this issue

[KausLol]

Please assign me this issue. Thanks!