According to my manpage, C is for compression and 2 is for SSH2. You'd need to use -o to set the compression level, and then you'd probably also want to make su

According to my manpage, C is for compression and 2 is for SSH2. You'd need to use -o to set the compression level, and then you'd probably also want to make sure compression actually helps (manpage warns against it). Similarly, -n is described as necessary for backgrounding the process, if you want to. I can't find a reason to use -T, unless you intend to send binary data over the pipe.