How can I see the memory occupied by a file and folder and also entire directory from terminal?
This will summarise the sizes of the directories:
du -h
PS: Although all computer storage is technically "memory", this term is usually reserved for non-persistent storage like RAM and CPU cache.
To see the full size (including whole content) of a folder in a directory, use the command
du -hs YOUR_FOLDER_NAME
To see the full size (including whole content) of all folders and files in a directory, use the command
ls | xargs -I fileorfolder du -hs fileorfolder
Try these commands,
cd ~/Documents ls -shR