diff --git a/bin/babel/dir.js b/bin/babel/dir.js
index 428099537e..14ca05df3b 100644
--- a/bin/babel/dir.js
+++ b/bin/babel/dir.js
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ module.exports = function (commander, filenames, opts) {
         var src = path.join(dirname, filename);
         if (util.canCompile(filename)) {
           write(src, filename);
+        } else if (commander.copyFiles) {
+          outputFileSync(path.join(commander.outDir, filename), fs.readFileSync(src));
         }
       });
     } else {
diff --git a/bin/babel/index.js b/bin/babel/index.js
index 59c5b42328..c78d894890 100755
--- a/bin/babel/index.js
+++ b/bin/babel/index.js
@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ commander.option("-M, --module-ids", "Insert module id in modules", false);
 commander.option("-R, --react-compat", "Makes the react transformer produce pre-v0.12 code");
 commander.option("--keep-module-id-extensions", "Keep extensions when generating module ids", false);
 commander.option("-a, --auxiliary-comment [comment]", "Comment text to prepend to all auxiliary code");
+commander.option("-D, --copy-files", "When compiling a directory copy over non-compilable files");
+
+
 
 commander.on("--help", function () {
   var outKeys = function (title, obj) {