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Find the Largest Files Consuming Disk Space with a Beautiful Terminal Report in Python

Scan a directory recursively and print a formatted terminal report of the largest files, with human-readable sizes.

file-system disk-space pathlib
Python
import os
import sys
from pathlib import Path

def get_largest_files(directory: str, count: int = 10) -> list:
    """
    Scan the given directory and return the largest files.
    
    Args:
        directory: Path to the directory to scan
        count: Number of largest files to return
        
    Returns:
      …
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