use warnings; use strict; use IO::Compress::Zip qw/$ZipError/; my @lines = (qw/ Hello World Foo Bar /); my $eol = "\r\n"; binmode STDOUT; # just to play it safe my $z = IO::Compress::Zip->new('-', # STDOUT Name => "Filename.txt" ) or die "zip failed: $ZipError\n"; for my $line (@lines) { $z->print($line, $eol); } $z->close();