What is the difference between cat and vim command to file system?

[Sucan Zhang]

Hi,

why use cat command to edit a file , the blocks of the file will not change.

but use vim command to edit a file, the blocks of the file will change?

Thanks in advance!

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Regards,
Sucan
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