Today I read Debian: convert ppk key for linux ssh which explained how to convert PuTTY *.ppk files to *.pem files for Linux:
sudo apt-get install putty-tools puttygen mykey.ppk -O private-openssh -o mykey.pem
I think I’ve probably done this before (the links in my browser were marked as visited), but today I wanted to create a desktop/toolbar shortcut icon (with shortcut key) to a saved PuTTY session called “peace tunnel”. The “peace tunnel” opens an SSH session to a development server called “peace” and automatically configures a tunnel from port 80 on the localhost to port 80 on the server, so I can check on the progress of a web application under development.
Anyway, I found the documentation for Starting a session from the command line and basically to load my saved session called “peace tunnel” I had to run the command:
putty.exe -load "peace tunnel"
Too easy.