diff --git a/types/shell-escape/index.d.ts b/types/shell-escape/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for shell-escape 0.2
+// Project: https://github.com/xxorax/node-shell-escape
+// Definitions by: Miloslav Nenadál <https://github.com/nenadalm>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+
+type ShellEscape = (a: string[]) => string;
+
+declare const shellEscape: ShellEscape;
+
+export = shellEscape;
diff --git a/types/shell-escape/shell-escape-tests.ts b/types/shell-escape/shell-escape-tests.ts
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+import * as shellEscape from 'shell-escape';
+
+() => {
+    const stringRes = shellEscape(['cp', '-r', 'src/', 'dest/']);
+};
diff --git a/types/shell-escape/tsconfig.json b/types/shell-escape/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",
+        "shell-escape-tests.ts"
+    ]
+}
diff --git a/types/shell-escape/tslint.json b/types/shell-escape/tslint.json
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+{ "extends": "dtslint/dt.json" }