diff --git a/types/stream-shift/index.d.ts b/types/stream-shift/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for stream-shift 1.0
+// Project: https://github.com/mafintosh/stream-shift
+// Definitions by: Daniel Cassidy <https://github.com/djcsdy>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+
+/// <reference types="node"/>
+
+declare function shift(stream: NodeJS.ReadableStream): Buffer | string | null;
+
+export = shift;
diff --git a/types/stream-shift/stream-shift-tests.ts b/types/stream-shift/stream-shift-tests.ts
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+import shift = require("stream-shift");
+import { createReadStream, createWriteStream } from "fs";
+
+const stream = createReadStream(__filename);
+
+const x: Buffer | string | null = shift(stream);
diff --git a/types/stream-shift/tsconfig.json b/types/stream-shift/tsconfig.json
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+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "lib": [
+            "es6"
+        ],
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "strictFunctionTypes": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "typeRoots": [
+            "../"
+        ],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
+    },
+    "files": [
+        "index.d.ts",
+        "stream-shift-tests.ts"
+    ]
+}
diff --git a/types/stream-shift/tslint.json b/types/stream-shift/tslint.json
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+{ "extends": "dtslint/dt.json" }