import hashlib import os # Returns the hash string of the given file name def hashFile(filename): # For large files, if we read it all together it can lead to memory overflow BLOCKSIZE = 65536 hasher = hashlib.md5() with open(filename, 'rb') as file: # Reads the particular blocksize from file buf = file.read(BLOCKSIZE) while(len(buf) > 0): hasher.update(buf) buf = file.read(BLOCKSIZE) return hasher.hexdigest() if __name__ == "__main__": # Dictionary to store the hash and filename hashMap = {} # List to store deleted files deletedFiles = [] filelist = [f for f in os.listdir() if os.path.isfile(f)] for f in filelist: key = hashFile(f) # If key already exists, it deletes the file if key in hashMap.keys(): deletedFiles.append(f) os.remove(f) else: hashMap[key] = f if len(deletedFiles) != 0: print('Deleted Files') for i in deletedFiles: print(i) else: print('No duplicate files found')