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Is there a way to remotely ZIP up files using Putty the same way you can ZIP up files using Remote Desktop on another machine?

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It all depends on what's installed on the host that you're connecting to - whether you connect via SSH (PuTTY) to a Unix/Linux machine or RDP to a Windows machine.

Try running zip, gzip, bzip, or tar - those are usually installed on most Unix machines.

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as mfinni says, it requires that zip is installed on the remote system. Assuming that you are on a unix system and that zip is already installed, the command to unzip a file is:

unzip myzipfile.zip
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  • Check the manpage for zip (man zip). You can do something like this: zip output.zip file1 file2 ...
    – lladnar
    Sep 17, 2010 at 17:49
  • absolutely, but the question was to zip up a files, aka unzip :)
    – Avada Kedavra
    Sep 18, 2010 at 9:10
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You can also ZIP folders using Putty just like this:

zip -r filename.zip foldername

Its very useful when you want to backup and download folders with a lot of files.

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    This only works if the system has zip installed on it as two others have already pointed out.
    – Chris S
    Jul 13, 2011 at 14:43

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