diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 8f7ad39b83..e10816aa78 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ define PARSE_RULE
         $$(eval $$(call PARSE_TEST))
     # If the rule starts with the name of a known keyboard, then continue
     # the parsing from PARSE_KEYBOARD
-    else ifeq ($$(call TRY_TO_MATCH_RULE_FROM_LIST,$$(shell util/list_keyboards.sh | sort -u)),true)
+    else ifeq ($$(call TRY_TO_MATCH_RULE_FROM_LIST,$$(shell $(QMK_BIN) list-keyboards --no-resolve-defaults)),true)
         KEYBOARD_RULE=$$(MATCHED_ITEM)
         $$(eval $$(call PARSE_KEYBOARD,$$(MATCHED_ITEM)))
     else
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ endef
 # if we are going to compile all keyboards, match the rest of the rule
 # for each of them
 define PARSE_ALL_KEYBOARDS
-    $$(eval $$(call PARSE_ALL_IN_LIST,PARSE_KEYBOARD,$(shell util/list_keyboards.sh | sort -u)))
+    $$(eval $$(call PARSE_ALL_IN_LIST,PARSE_KEYBOARD,$(shell $(QMK_BIN) list-keyboards --no-resolve-defaults)))
 endef
 
 # Prints a list of all known keymaps for the given keyboard
@@ -443,11 +443,11 @@ git-submodules: git-submodule
 
 .PHONY: list-keyboards
 list-keyboards:
-	util/list_keyboards.sh | sort -u | tr '\n' ' '
+	$(QMK_BIN) list-keyboards --no-resolve-defaults | tr '\n' ' '
 
 .PHONY: generate-keyboards-file
 generate-keyboards-file:
-	util/list_keyboards.sh | sort -u
+	$(QMK_BIN) list-keyboards --no-resolve-defaults
 
 .PHONY: clean
 clean:
diff --git a/lib/python/qmk/cli/list/keyboards.py b/lib/python/qmk/cli/list/keyboards.py
index 8b6c451673..405b9210e4 100644
--- a/lib/python/qmk/cli/list/keyboards.py
+++ b/lib/python/qmk/cli/list/keyboards.py
@@ -5,9 +5,10 @@ from milc import cli
 import qmk.keyboard
 
 
+@cli.argument('--no-resolve-defaults', arg_only=True, action='store_false', help='Ignore any "DEFAULT_FOLDER" within keyboards rules.mk')
 @cli.subcommand("List the keyboards currently defined within QMK")
 def list_keyboards(cli):
     """List the keyboards currently defined within QMK
     """
-    for keyboard_name in qmk.keyboard.list_keyboards():
+    for keyboard_name in qmk.keyboard.list_keyboards(cli.args.no_resolve_defaults):
         print(keyboard_name)
diff --git a/lib/python/qmk/keyboard.py b/lib/python/qmk/keyboard.py
index 6ddbba8fa5..0c980faf2b 100644
--- a/lib/python/qmk/keyboard.py
+++ b/lib/python/qmk/keyboard.py
@@ -98,14 +98,18 @@ def keyboard_completer(prefix, action, parser, parsed_args):
     return list_keyboards()
 
 
-def list_keyboards():
-    """Returns a list of all keyboards.
+def list_keyboards(resolve_defaults=True):
+    """Returns a list of all keyboards - optionally processing any DEFAULT_FOLDER.
     """
     # We avoid pathlib here because this is performance critical code.
     kb_wildcard = os.path.join(base_path, "**", "rules.mk")
     paths = [path for path in glob(kb_wildcard, recursive=True) if os.path.sep + 'keymaps' + os.path.sep not in path]
 
-    return sorted(set(map(resolve_keyboard, map(_find_name, paths))))
+    found = map(_find_name, paths)
+    if resolve_defaults:
+        found = map(resolve_keyboard, found)
+
+    return sorted(set(found))
 
 
 def resolve_keyboard(keyboard):
diff --git a/util/list_keyboards.sh b/util/list_keyboards.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 0d1dae888f..0000000000
--- a/util/list_keyboards.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-# Temporary shell script to find keyboards
-#
-# This allows us to include DEFAULT_FOLDER targets.
-
-find -L keyboards -type f -name rules.mk | grep -v keymaps | sed 's!keyboards/\(.*\)/rules.mk!\1!'