How does one gunzip via SSH?

[hydrostatic]

For a long time, I have been downloading my forum files via FTP. This takes a long time, and sometimes it times out. I have SSH access, so can someone tell me how to gunzip my forum files so I can easily download it?

Thanks,
hydrostatic

[firstrebel]

/usr/bin/mysqldump -uusername -ppassword dbname | gzip > /path/to/file.sql.gz
Then download the .sql.gz file

Bob