$ ps -ejH PID PGID SID TTY TIME CMD ... 1396 1396 1396 ? 00:00:00 sshd 28281 28281 28281 ? 00:00:00 sshd 28409 28281 28281 ? 00:00:00 sshd 28410 28410 28410 pts/0 00:00:00 bash 30968 30968 28410 pts/0 ...
Your VS Code workflow is probably slower than it needs to be, but if you use the Command Palette you'll be faster.
Viewing the content of files and examining access permissions and such are very different options. This post examines a number of ways to look at files on Linux. There are a number of ways to view ...