Hunting Disk Hogs on Ubuntu: A Shell Script for Finding the Largest Files

Why this script exists If you've ever watched your free disk space quietly shrink over a few weeks of active development, you know the feeling: yesterday you had plenty of headroom, today your IDE is yelling about low disk space, and you have no idea what ate the difference. Active Node.js and Python projects are especially good at this — node_modules , build caches, .next directories, virtual environments, and compiled artifacts accumulate silently with every install and every build. This artic