diff --git a/egs/mini_librispeech/s5/local/download_and_untar.sh b/egs/mini_librispeech/s5/local/download_and_untar.sh
index 93c18f263d2..3b732bca8ea 100755
--- a/egs/mini_librispeech/s5/local/download_and_untar.sh
+++ b/egs/mini_librispeech/s5/local/download_and_untar.sh
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ if [ ! -f $data/$part.tar.gz ]; then
     echo "$0: error executing wget $full_url"
     exit 1;
   fi
+  cd -
 fi
 
 cd $data