diff --git a/register-plugins.nu b/register-plugins.nu
index f645f3ddad..96ffc0b289 100644
--- a/register-plugins.nu
+++ b/register-plugins.nu
@@ -1,15 +1,3 @@
-# match command
-def match [input, matchers: record] {
-    echo $matchers | get $input | do $in
-}
-
-# register plugin
-def register_plugin [plugin] {
-    print -n $"registering ($plugin), "
-    nu -c $'register ($plugin)'
-    print "success!"
-}
-
 # are we on windows or not?
 def windows? [] {
     $nu.os-info.name == windows
@@ -21,28 +9,14 @@ def keep-plugin-executables [] {
 }
 
 # get list of all plugin files from their installed directory
-let plugin_location = ((which nu).path.0 | path dirname)
-
-# for each plugin file, print the name and launch another instance of nushell to register it
-for plugin in (ls $"($plugin_location)/nu_plugin_*" | keep-plugin-executables) {
-    match ($plugin.name | path basename | str replace '\.exe$' '') {
-        nu_plugin_custom_values: { register_plugin $plugin.name }
-        nu_plugin_example: { register_plugin $plugin.name }
-        nu_plugin_from_parquet: { register_plugin $plugin.name }
-        nu_plugin_gstat: { register_plugin $plugin.name }
-        nu_plugin_inc: { register_plugin $plugin.name }
-        nu_plugin_query: { register_plugin $plugin.name }
-        nu_plugin_regex: { register_plugin $plugin.name }
-        nu_plugin_periodic_table: { register_plugin $plugin.name }
-        nu_plugin_pnet: { register_plugin $plugin.name }
-        nu_plugin_python: { register_plugin $plugin.name }
-        nu_plugin_bio: { register_plugin $plugin.name }
-        nu_plugin_dcm: { register_plugin $plugin.name }
-        nu_plugin_dotenv: { register_plugin $plugin.name }
-        nu_plugin_from_bencode: { register_plugin $plugin.name }
-    }
+ls ((which nu).path.0 | path dirname)
+| where name =~ nu_plugin
+| keep-plugin-executables
+| each {|plugin|
+    print -n $"registering ($plugin.name), "
+    nu -c $"register '($plugin.name)'"
+    print "success!"
 }
-
 # print helpful message
 print "\nplugins registered, please restart nushell"