added a script to check duplicate files using metadata, also updated the read.me

Duplicate Finder/Readme.md

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 This script scans a given directory for duplicate files based on their MD5 hash. It provides options to delete or move the duplicate files to another directory.
 
+The metadata script scans a given directry and finds duplicate files based on MD5 hash, file size and other metadata, it does not include the move, and delete features.
 ## Features
 
 - Scan a directory recursively for duplicate files.

Duplicate Finder/metadata-duplicate-finder.py

@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+import os
+import hashlib
+from collections import defaultdict
+
+def find_duplicates(folder_path):
+    file_metadata = defaultdict(list)
+
+    for root, _, files in os.walk(folder_path):
+        for file_name in files:
+            file_path = os.path.join(root, file_name)
+            metadata = get_file_metadata(file_path)
+            if metadata:
+                file_metadata[metadata].append(file_path)
+
+    duplicates = [files for files in file_metadata.values() if len(files) > 1]
+
+    if not duplicates:
+        print("No duplicates found.")
+    else:
+        for index, files in enumerate(duplicates, start=1):
+            print(f"\nDuplicate Group {index}:")
+            for file in files:
+                print(f"  {file}")
+
+def get_file_metadata(file_path):
+    try:
+        file_size = os.path.getsize(file_path)
+        mod_time = os.path.getmtime(file_path)
+        file_hash = calculate_file_hash(file_path)
+        return (file_size, mod_time, file_hash)
+    except (OSError, IOError) as e:
+        print(f"Error accessing file {file_path}: {e}")
+        return None
+
+def calculate_file_hash(file_path, hash_algo=hashlib.md5):
+    try:
+        hash_obj = hash_algo()
+        with open(file_path, 'rb') as file:
+            while chunk := file.read(8192):
+                hash_obj.update(chunk)
+        return hash_obj.hexdigest()
+    except (OSError, IOError) as e:
+        print(f"Error reading file {file_path}: {e}")
+        return None
+
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    folder_path = input("Enter the path to the folder to scan for duplicates: ").strip()
+    if os.path.isdir(folder_path):
+        find_duplicates(folder_path)
+    else:
+        print("The specified path is not a valid directory.")
+