Add functionality to the output flag to output to a directory #16

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1. JVBotelho

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   JVBotelho

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   Hey hey @SoftAndoWetto !
   Thanks for the report. I’ve prepared a fix in #17 and would appreciate validation in the same environment where you originally encountered the error before releasing it.

   Could you please test these two forms?

   1. Explicit output file:

   -o /home/htb-ac-1565529/Downloads/GhostHound.json

   Expected: writes exactly to /home/htb-ac-1565529/Downloads/GhostHound.json

   2. Existing output directory:

   -o /home/htb-ac-1565529/Downloads

   Expected: writes to /home/htb-ac-1565529/Downloads/ghosthound_output.json

   If you have Cargo installed, you can test the PR in isolation with:

   cargo install \
     --git https://github.com/JVBotelho/ghosthound \
     --rev 71538227f9c537e2f6af946b35c67b7249d18fec \
     --root /tmp/ghosthound-pr17 \
     ghosthound

   The test binary will be at:

   /tmp/ghosthound-pr17/bin/ghosthound

   It would also help if you could confirm whether the explicit full-file path failed originally, or whether the failing command passed only the directory to -o