diff --git a/egs/librispeech/s5/local/decode_example.sh b/egs/librispeech/s5/local/decode_example.sh
index 0a72ded2a..5eafb2636 100755
--- a/egs/librispeech/s5/local/decode_example.sh
+++ b/egs/librispeech/s5/local/decode_example.sh
@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@ lang=data/lang
 lang_test=data/lang_test
 lang_test_tmp=data/local/lang_test_tmp/
 mkdir -p $lang_test_tmp
-cp -rT $lang $lang_test
+mkdir -p $lang_test
+cp -r $lang/* $lang_test
 gunzip -c $lm | utils/find_arpa_oovs.pl $lang_test/words.txt \
   > $lang_test_tmp/oovs.txt || exit 1
 gunzip -c $lm | \
diff --git a/egs/wsj/s5/utils/prepare_online_nnet_dist_build.sh b/egs/wsj/s5/utils/prepare_online_nnet_dist_build.sh
index 51fe52875..adc2cefbe 100755
--- a/egs/wsj/s5/utils/prepare_online_nnet_dist_build.sh
+++ b/egs/wsj/s5/utils/prepare_online_nnet_dist_build.sh
@@ -42,7 +42,8 @@ done
 # Makes a copy of the original config files, as we will change the absolute path
 # to relative.
 rm -rf $modeldir/conf_abs_path
-cp -rT $modeldir/conf $modeldir/conf_abs_path
+mkdir -p $modeldir/conf_abs_path
+cp -r $modeldir/conf/* $modeldir/conf_abs_path
 
 for f in $conf_files; do 
   [ ! -f $modeldir/conf/$f ] && \