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How to run tidy as Notepad++ filter command

For some reason I didn't find a working example of how to run tidy in Notepad++, so I installed it via an external command with the following

• install pork to sausage plugin

• install chocolatey

  winget install chocolatey

• install tiny

run cmd.exe as adminstrator

  choco install html-tidy

• configure pork to sausage for the new command

go to the Port To Sausage, Edit User Commands and add the text to the end of the file

[html-tidy]
progPath=C:\Tools\cmder\vendor\git-for-windows\usr\bin\bash.exe
progCmd=bash -c 'echo $(SELECTION) | tidy 2>/dev/null'
workDir=C:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins\pork2Sausage\demo\zip.base64

This command makes use of bash since I couldn't get it to run the text with the tidy command in a single command line, I have used the one from Cmder, depending on what bash you have installed (usually in git-for-windows), the path has to be changed