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+# match command
+def match [input, matchers: record] {
+    echo $matchers | get $input | do $in
+}
+
+# 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_*") {
+    print $"registering ($plugin.name)"
+    match ($plugin.name | path basename) {
+        # MacOS/Linux
+        nu_plugin_custom_values: { nu -c $'register -e msgpack ($plugin.name)' }
+        nu_plugin_example: { nu -c $'register -e msgpack ($plugin.name)' }
+        nu_plugin_from_parquet: { nu -c $'register -e json ($plugin.name)' }
+        nu_plugin_gstat: { nu -c $'register -e msgpack ($plugin.name)' }
+        nu_plugin_inc: { nu -c $'register -e json ($plugin.name)' }
+        nu_plugin_query: { nu -c $'register -e json ($plugin.name)' }
+        # Windows
+        nu_plugin_custom_values.exe: { nu -c $'register -e msgpack ($plugin.name)' }
+        nu_plugin_example.exe: { nu -c $'register -e msgpack ($plugin.name)' }
+        nu_plugin_from_parquet.exe: { nu -c $'register -e json ($plugin.name)' }
+        nu_plugin_gstat.exe: { nu -c $'register -e msgpack ($plugin.name)' }
+        nu_plugin_inc.exe: { nu -c $'register -e json ($plugin.name)' }
+        nu_plugin_query.exe: { nu -c $'register -e json ($plugin.name)' }
+    }
+}
+
+print "\nplugins registered, please restart nushell"
+
+# print "\nplugin commands registered"
+# version | get installed_plugins | split row ', '