diff --git a/data/scripts/get_coco.sh b/data/scripts/get_coco.sh
index b0df905c8525..02634c000dfe 100755
--- a/data/scripts/get_coco.sh
+++ b/data/scripts/get_coco.sh
@@ -10,8 +10,9 @@
 # Download/unzip labels
 d='../' # unzip directory
 url=https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5/releases/download/v1.0/
-f='coco2017labels.zip'                                                                 # 68 MB
-echo 'Downloading' $url$f ' ...' && curl -L $url$f -o $f && unzip -q $f -d $d && rm $f # download, unzip, remove
+f='coco2017labels.zip' # 68 MB
+echo 'Downloading' $url$f ' ...'
+curl -L $url$f -o $f && unzip -q $f -d $d && rm $f & # download, unzip, remove in background
 
 # Download/unzip images
 d='../coco/images' # unzip directory
@@ -20,7 +21,7 @@ f1='train2017.zip' # 19G, 118k images
 f2='val2017.zip'   # 1G, 5k images
 f3='test2017.zip'  # 7G, 41k images (optional)
 for f in $f1 $f2; do
-  echo 'Downloading' $url$f '...' && curl -L $url$f -o $f # download, (unzip, remove in background)
-  unzip -q $f -d $d && rm $f &
+  echo 'Downloading' $url$f '...'
+  curl -L $url$f -o $f && unzip -q $f -d $d && rm $f & # download, unzip, remove in background
 done
 wait # finish background tasks
diff --git a/data/scripts/get_voc.sh b/data/scripts/get_voc.sh
index 06414b085095..13b83c28d706 100644
--- a/data/scripts/get_voc.sh
+++ b/data/scripts/get_voc.sh
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ f1=VOCtrainval_06-Nov-2007.zip # 446MB, 5012 images
 f2=VOCtest_06-Nov-2007.zip     # 438MB, 4953 images
 f3=VOCtrainval_11-May-2012.zip # 1.95GB, 17126 images
 for f in $f3 $f2 $f1; do
-  echo 'Downloading' $url$f '...' && curl -L $url$f -o $f # download, (unzip, remove in background)
-  unzip -q $f -d $d && rm $f &
+  echo 'Downloading' $url$f '...' 
+  curl -L $url$f -o $f && unzip -q $f -d $d && rm $f & # download, unzip, remove in background
 done
 wait # finish background tasks