gzip and gunzip to another location

Zipping to another location

gzip -c abc.txt > /usr1/abc.gz

Unzinpping to another location 

 

gunzip -c /user1/abc.gz> /user2/abc

Multiple compressed files can be concatenated. In this case, gunzip will extract all members at once. For example:

 

             gzip -c file1  > foo.gz

             gzip -c file2 >> foo.gz

 

 Then

  gunzip -c foo

 

 is equivalent to

 

 cat file1 file2