diff --git a/test/lint/lint-all.sh b/test/lint/lint-all.sh
index 43327baf2f..0d1a3777ed 100755
--- a/test/lint/lint-all.sh
+++ b/test/lint/lint-all.sh
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
 # file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
 #
-# This script runs all contrib/devtools/lint-*.sh files, and fails if any exit
+# This script runs all contrib/devtools/lint-* files, and fails if any exit
 # with a non-zero status code.
 
 # This script is intentionally locale dependent by not setting "export LC_ALL=C"
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ LINTALL=$(basename "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")
 EXIT_CODE=0
 
 if ! command -v parallel > /dev/null; then
-  for f in "${SCRIPTDIR}"/lint-*.sh; do
+  for f in "${SCRIPTDIR}"/lint-*; do
     if [ "$(basename "$f")" != "$LINTALL" ]; then
       if ! "$f"; then
         echo "^---- failure generated from $f"
diff --git a/test/lint/lint-files.py b/test/lint/lint-files.py
index 400921e5f3..aac641d76a 100755
--- a/test/lint/lint-files.py
+++ b/test/lint/lint-files.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import sys
 from subprocess import check_output
 from typing import Optional, NoReturn
 
+CMD_TOP_LEVEL = ["git", "rev-parse", "--show-toplevel"]
 CMD_ALL_FILES = "git ls-files -z --full-name"
 CMD_SOURCE_FILES = 'git ls-files -z --full-name -- "*.[cC][pP][pP]" "*.[hH]" "*.[pP][yY]" "*.[sS][hH]"'
 CMD_SHEBANG_FILES = "git grep --full-name --line-number -I '^#!'"
@@ -184,6 +185,8 @@ def check_shebang_file_permissions() -> int:
 
 
 def main() -> NoReturn:
+    root_dir = check_output(CMD_TOP_LEVEL).decode("utf8").strip()
+    os.chdir(root_dir)
     failed_tests = 0
     failed_tests += check_all_filenames()
     failed_tests += check_source_filenames()
diff --git a/test/lint/lint-files.sh b/test/lint/lint-files.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 1e115778bd..0000000000
--- a/test/lint/lint-files.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-export LC_ALL=C
-
-set -e
-cd "$(dirname $0)/../.."
-test/lint/lint-files.py
diff --git a/test/lint/lint-format-strings.sh b/test/lint/lint-format-strings.sh
index 89d7125d56..6887b607aa 100755
--- a/test/lint/lint-format-strings.sh
+++ b/test/lint/lint-format-strings.sh
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ FUNCTION_NAMES_AND_NUMBER_OF_LEADING_ARGUMENTS=(
 )
 
 EXIT_CODE=0
-if ! python3 -m doctest test/lint/lint-format-strings.py; then
+if ! python3 -m doctest "test/lint/run-lint-format-strings.py"; then
     EXIT_CODE=1
 fi
 for S in "${FUNCTION_NAMES_AND_NUMBER_OF_LEADING_ARGUMENTS[@]}"; do
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ for S in "${FUNCTION_NAMES_AND_NUMBER_OF_LEADING_ARGUMENTS[@]}"; do
     for MATCHING_FILE in $(git grep --full-name -l "${FUNCTION_NAME}" -- "*.c" "*.cpp" "*.h" | sort | grep -vE "^src/(dashbls|leveldb|secp256k1|tinyformat|univalue|test/fuzz/strprintf.cpp)"); do
         MATCHING_FILES+=("${MATCHING_FILE}")
     done
-    if ! test/lint/lint-format-strings.py --skip-arguments "${SKIP_ARGUMENTS}" "${FUNCTION_NAME}" "${MATCHING_FILES[@]}"; then
+    if ! "test/lint/run-lint-format-strings.py" --skip-arguments "${SKIP_ARGUMENTS}" "${FUNCTION_NAME}" "${MATCHING_FILES[@]}"; then
         EXIT_CODE=1
     fi
 done
diff --git a/test/lint/lint-spelling.sh b/test/lint/lint-spelling.sh
index 818f1eec1a..199259941f 100755
--- a/test/lint/lint-spelling.sh
+++ b/test/lint/lint-spelling.sh
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ if ! command -v codespell > /dev/null; then
     exit 0
 fi
 
-IGNORE_WORDS_FILE=test/lint/lint-spelling.ignore-words.txt
+IGNORE_WORDS_FILE="test/lint/spelling.ignore-words.txt"
 if ! codespell --check-filenames --disable-colors --quiet-level=7 --ignore-words=${IGNORE_WORDS_FILE} $(git ls-files -- ":(exclude)build-aux/m4/" ":(exclude)contrib/seeds/*.txt" ":(exclude)depends/" ":(exclude)doc/release-notes/" ":(exclude)src/bip39_english.h" ":(exclude)src/dashbls/" ":(exclude)src/crc32c/" ":(exclude)src/crypto/" ":(exclude)src/ctpl_stl.h" ":(exclude)src/cxxtimer.hpp" ":(exclude)src/util/expected.h" ":(exclude)src/immer/" ":(exclude)src/leveldb/" ":(exclude)src/qt/locale/" ":(exclude)src/qt/*.qrc" ":(exclude)src/secp256k1/" ":(exclude)src/univalue/" ":(exclude)contrib/builder-keys/" ":(exclude)contrib/guix/patches"); then
     echo "^ Warning: codespell identified likely spelling errors. Any false positives? Add them to the list of ignored words in ${IGNORE_WORDS_FILE}"
 fi
diff --git a/test/lint/lint-format-strings.py b/test/lint/run-lint-format-strings.py
similarity index 100%
rename from test/lint/lint-format-strings.py
rename to test/lint/run-lint-format-strings.py
diff --git a/test/lint/lint-spelling.ignore-words.txt b/test/lint/spelling.ignore-words.txt
similarity index 100%
rename from test/lint/lint-spelling.ignore-words.txt
rename to test/lint/spelling.ignore-words.txt