diff --git a/tools/run_renderspec.sh b/tools/run_renderspec.sh
index 3e9d73841..17d0bed6d 100755
--- a/tools/run_renderspec.sh
+++ b/tools/run_renderspec.sh
@@ -2,7 +2,11 @@
 
 set -eux
 
+# 1st positional arg is the working dir
 basedir=${1:-$PWD}
+# 2nd positional arg is the find -name parameter
+FIND_STR=${2:-*}
+
 specdir=${basedir}/openstack/
 
 WORKSPACE=${WORKSPACE:-$basedir}
@@ -19,7 +23,7 @@ done
 count=0
 echo "run renderspec over specfiles from ${specdir}"
 for specstyle in $specstyles; do
-    find ${specdir} -name '*.spec.j2' -type f -print0 | \
+    find ${specdir} -name "${FIND_STR}.spec.j2" -type f -print0 | \
         xargs -n 1 -0 -P 0 -I __SPEC__ bash -c "
             set -e
             skip='--skip-pyversion py3'
diff --git a/tools/run_specchecks.sh b/tools/run_specchecks.sh
index 07e99beaa..7fb8dbd4f 100755
--- a/tools/run_specchecks.sh
+++ b/tools/run_specchecks.sh
@@ -2,7 +2,10 @@
 
 set -e
 
+# 1st positional arg is the working dir
 basedir=${1:-$PWD}
+# 2nd positional arg is the find -name parameter
+FIND_STR=${2:-*}
 
 WORKSPACE=${WORKSPACE:-$basedir}
 
@@ -12,7 +15,8 @@ thome=$(mktemp -d)
 cat openstack/openstack-macros/macros.openstack-singlespec > $thome/.rpmmacros
 
 failed=0
-for spec in $WORKSPACE/logs/suse/*.spec ; do
+for spec in `find $WORKSPACE/logs/suse/ -name "${FIND_STR}.spec" -type f -print` ; do
+    echo "Checking $spec"
     egrep -q '^Source:' $spec && {
         echo "$spec should not have Source: lines. Please use Source0: instead."
         failed=1
diff --git a/tools/run_speccleaner.sh b/tools/run_speccleaner.sh
index 59bf31bfe..1a2ec4639 100755
--- a/tools/run_speccleaner.sh
+++ b/tools/run_speccleaner.sh
@@ -2,7 +2,10 @@
 
 set -e
 
+# 1st positional arg is the working dir
 basedir=${1:-$PWD}
+# 2nd positional arg is the find -name parameter
+FIND_STR=${2:-*}
 
 WORKSPACE=${WORKSPACE:-$basedir}
 # tempfile to store the spec-cleaner diff for all specs
@@ -14,7 +17,8 @@ echo "run spec-cleaner over specfiles from $WORKSPACE/logs/"
 count=0
 # TODO(toabctl): also run spec-cleaner with non-SUSE specs
 # but the current problem is that the license check works for SUSE only
-for spec in $WORKSPACE/logs/suse/*.spec ; do
+for spec in `find $WORKSPACE/logs/suse/ -name "${FIND_STR}.spec" -type f -print` ; do
+    echo "spec-cleaner checking $spec"
     # NOTE(toabctl):spec-cleaner can not ignore epochs currently
     sed -i '/^Epoch:.*/d' $spec
     # NOTE(jpena): spec-cleaner wants python2/python3 instead of
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 4f1d3d6fa..21b941ff4 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ passenv = http_proxy HTTP_PROXY https_proxy HTTPS_PROXY no_proxy NO_PROXY
 
 [testenv:linters]
 commands =
-  {toxinidir}/tools/run_renderspec.sh {toxinidir}
-  {toxinidir}/tools/run_specchecks.sh {toxinidir}
-  {toxinidir}/tools/run_speccleaner.sh {toxinidir}
+  {toxinidir}/tools/run_renderspec.sh {toxinidir} {posargs}
+  {toxinidir}/tools/run_specchecks.sh {toxinidir} {posargs}
+  {toxinidir}/tools/run_speccleaner.sh {toxinidir} {posargs}
 
 # compat. remove me
 [testenv:lint]