diff --git a/test/lint/lint-format-strings.sh b/test/lint/lint-format-strings.sh
index e8ccd2adf6..2fae1a61e8 100755
--- a/test/lint/lint-format-strings.sh
+++ b/test/lint/lint-format-strings.sh
@@ -1,39 +1,38 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 #
 # Copyright (c) 2018 The Bitcoin Core developers
 # Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
 # file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
 #
 # Lint format strings: This program checks that the number of arguments passed
 # to a variadic format string function matches the number of format specifiers
 # in the format string.
 
 export LC_ALL=C
 
 FUNCTION_NAMES_AND_NUMBER_OF_LEADING_ARGUMENTS=(
     FatalError,0
     fprintf,1
     LogConnectFailure,1
     LogPrint,1
     LogPrintf,0
     printf,0
     snprintf,2
     sprintf,1
     strprintf,0
     vfprintf,1
     vprintf,1
     vsnprintf,1
     vsprintf,1
 )
 
 EXIT_CODE=0
 if ! python3 -m doctest test/lint/lint-format-strings.py; then
     EXIT_CODE=1
 fi
 for S in "${FUNCTION_NAMES_AND_NUMBER_OF_LEADING_ARGUMENTS[@]}"; do
     IFS="," read -r FUNCTION_NAME SKIP_ARGUMENTS <<< "${S}"
-    mapfile -t MATCHING_FILES < <(git grep --full-name -l "${FUNCTION_NAME}" -- ${1})
-	test/lint/lint-format-strings.py --skip-arguments "${SKIP_ARGUMENTS}" "${FUNCTION_NAME}" "${MATCHING_FILES[@]}"
+    test/lint/lint-format-strings.py --skip-arguments "${SKIP_ARGUMENTS}" "${FUNCTION_NAME}" "${1}"
 done
 
-exit ${EXIT_CODE}
\ No newline at end of file
+exit ${EXIT_CODE}