diff --git a/kill-wpull-connections b/kill-wpull-connections
index 817ef6e..ed1c756 100644
--- a/kill-wpull-connections
+++ b/kill-wpull-connections
@@ -21,13 +21,7 @@ then
 	fi
 elif [[ "$1" == '-j' ]]
 then
-	pids=($(pgrep --full "wpull.*$2"))
-
-	# Filter out this script; this is more complicated than it should be because you can't simply `| grep -v` the PID of this script. When you do that, you create a subshell, which you'd need to filter out as well.
-	# Instead, we convert the list to a string of the form " 1 2 3 ", then replace " PID " by a single space, and finally convert it back to an array for counting the remaining PIDs.
-	pids=" ${pids//$'\n'/ } "
-	pids=(${pids/ $$ / })
-
+	pids=($(pgrep --full "wpull.*/$2/"))
 	if [[ ${#pids[@]} -ne 1 ]]
 	then
 		echo "Error: not exactly one process found for '$2'"