diff --git a/types/expand-tilde/expand-tilde-tests.ts b/types/expand-tilde/expand-tilde-tests.ts
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+import expandTilde = require("expand-tilde");
+
+expandTilde("~") // $ExpectType string
diff --git a/types/expand-tilde/index.d.ts b/types/expand-tilde/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for expand-tilde 2.0
+// Project: https://github.com/jonschlinkert/expand-tilde
+// Definitions by: Chris Arnesen <https://github.com/carnesen>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+
+
+/**
+ * Bash-like tilde expansion for node.js. 
+ * Expands a leading tilde (~) in a file path to the user home directory, or ~+ to the cwd.
+ *
+ * @param {string} filePath - a file path to expand
+ * @returns {string} the expanded file path
+ */
+declare function expandTilde(filePath: string): string;
+
+export = expandTilde;
diff --git a/types/expand-tilde/tsconfig.json b/types/expand-tilde/tsconfig.json
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+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "lib": [
+            "es6"
+        ],
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "typeRoots": [
+            "../"
+        ],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
+    },
+    "files": [
+        "index.d.ts",
+        "expand-tilde-tests.ts"
+    ]
+}
diff --git a/types/expand-tilde/tslint.json b/types/expand-tilde/tslint.json
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+{ "extends": "dtslint/dt.json" }