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Find and Delete Duplicate Files Using Hashing in Python

Walk a directory tree, compute SHA256 hashes for every file, and delete duplicates that share the same hash.

deduplication files hashing
Python
import hashlib
import os
from pathlib import Path

def file_hash(path, block_size=65536):
    """Return SHA256 hash of file content."""
    hasher = hashlib.sha256()
    with open(path, 'rb') as f:
        while chunk := f.read(block_size):
            hasher.update(chunk)
    return hasher.hexdigest()

def find_and_d…
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