Using gzip in a pipe

[columb]

I need to copy some big (10 - 20Gb) files between two systems. To reduce network traffic I want to compress them in line. I'm looking at something like

ssh remote_host "gzip -c filename" | gzip -dc >> filename

but it doesn't want to work like that. Can anyone give me any pointers.
Thanks

Columb Healy

 

[p5wizard]

gzip -c file|gunzip -

HTH,

p5wizard

 

[p5wizard]

or

gzip -c file|gzip -d -

HTH,

p5wizard

 

[columb]

Thanks p5wizard - that's exactly what I wanted

Columb Healy