diff --git a/.tools/build_docker.sh b/.tools/build_docker.sh
index 2029819eedfd7561949944728fdeb1545e839094..4e147225910078b2b51ad2d1aae2d52ddc2aa415 100755
--- a/.tools/build_docker.sh
+++ b/.tools/build_docker.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-set -e
+set -xe
 
 cur_path="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd -P)"
-cd $cur_path/../
+cd "$cur_path"/../
 
 #paddle production image name
 if [ ! -n "$1" ]; then
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ MAINTAINER PaddlePaddle Authors <paddle-dev@baidu.com>
 COPY . /book
 EOF
 
-if [ -n ${http_proxy} ]; then
+if [ -n "${http_proxy}" ]; then
 cat >> Dockerfile <<EOF
 ENV http_proxy ${http_proxy}
 ENV https_proxy ${http_proxy}
@@ -58,20 +58,20 @@ EOF
 fi
 
 cat >> Dockerfile <<EOF
-RUN pip install -U nltk \
-    && python /book/.tools/cache_dataset.py
+  RUN pip install -U nltk \
+      && python /book/.tools/cache_dataset.py
 
 RUN ${update_mirror_cmd}
     apt-get update && \
-    apt-get install -y locales patch notedown && \
+    apt-get install -y locales patch && \
     apt-get -y install gcc && \
     apt-get -y clean && \
     localedef -f UTF-8 -i en_US en_US.UTF-8 && \
     pip install --upgrade pip && \
-    pip install -U pillow matplotlib jupyter numpy requests scipy
+    pip install -U notedown pillow matplotlib jupyter numpy requests scipy
 
 #convert md to ipynb
-RUN /book/.tools/notedown.sh
+RUN /bin/bash ./book/.tools/notedown.sh
 
 EXPOSE 8888
 CMD ["sh", "-c", "jupyter notebook --ip=0.0.0.0 --no-browser --allow-root --NotebookApp.token='' --NotebookApp.disable_check_xsrf=True /book/"]