Importing to mysql from a .gz via shell - how to do it without extracting to a file? [duplicate]

Importing to mysql from a .gz via shell - how to do it without extracting to a file? [duplicate]

i have a .gz file of an sql dump. at the moment i extract it to its own file (ie dump.sql.gz extracted to dump.sql) then i import that file, then once its done i delete the file.