diff --git a/types/tar-fs/index.d.ts b/types/tar-fs/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for tar-fs 1.16
+// Project: https://github.com/mafintosh/tar-fs
+// Definitions by: Umoxfo <https://github.com/Umoxfo>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+// TypeScript Version: 2.6
+
+// Imported from: https://github.com/soywiz/typescript-node-definitions/d.ts
+
+/// <reference types="node" />
+
+import fs = require("fs");
+
+export function pack(cwd: string, opts?: PackOptions): any;
+export function extract(cwd: string, opts?: ExtractOptions): any;
+
+export interface Options {
+    ignore?: (name: string) => boolean;
+    filter?: (name: string) => boolean;
+    map?: (header: Headers) => Headers;
+    mapStream?: (fileStream: fs.ReadStream, header: Headers) => fs.ReadStream;
+    strict?: boolean;
+}
+
+export interface PackOptions extends Options {
+    entries?: string[];
+    dereference?: boolean;
+    finalize?: boolean;
+    finish?: (pack: any) => void;
+}
+
+export interface ExtractOptions extends Options {
+    ignore?: (name: string, header?: Headers) => boolean;
+    filter?: (name: string, header?: Headers) => boolean;
+    dmode?: number;
+    fmode?: number;
+    readable?: boolean;
+    writable?: boolean;
+}
+
+export interface Headers {
+    name: string;
+    mode: number;
+    mtime: Date;
+    size: number;
+    type: "file" | "directory" | "symlink";
+    uid: number;
+    gid: number;
+}
diff --git a/types/tar-fs/tar-fs-tests.ts b/types/tar-fs/tar-fs-tests.ts
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+import tar = require("tar-fs");
+import fs = require("fs");
+import path = require("path");
+import stream = require("stream");
+
+/*
+ * Default test
+ */
+// packing a directory
+tar.pack('./my-directory').pipe(fs.createWriteStream('my-tarball.tar'));
+
+// extracting a directory
+fs.createReadStream('my-other-tarball.tar').pipe(tar.extract('./my-other-directory'));
+
+/*
+ * Ignore various files
+ */
+tar.pack('./my-directory', {
+	ignore: (name) => {
+		return path.extname(name) === '.bin'; // ignore .bin files when packing
+	}
+});
+
+tar.extract('./my-other-directory', {
+	ignore: (name) => {
+		return path.extname(name) === '.bin'; // ignore .bin files inside the tarball when extracing
+	}
+});
+
+tar.extract('./my-other-other-directory', {
+	ignore: (_, header) => {
+		// pass files & directories, ignore e.g. symlinks
+		return header.type !== 'file' && header.type !== 'directory';
+	}
+});
+
+/*
+ * Specify which entries to pack
+ */
+tar.pack('./my-directory', {
+	entries: ['file1', 'subdir/file2'], // only the specific entries will be packed
+});
+
+/*
+ * Modify the headers by map
+ */
+tar.pack('./my-directory', {
+	map: (header) => {
+		header.name = 'prefixed/' + header.name;
+		return header;
+	}
+});
+
+tar.extract('./my-directory', {
+	map: (header) => {
+		header.name = 'another-prefix/' + header.name;
+		return header;
+	}
+});
+
+/*
+ * Modify the headers by mapStream
+ */
+tar.pack('./my-directory', {
+	mapStream: (fileStream, header) => {
+		if (path.extname(header.name) === '.js') {
+			return fileStream;
+		}
+		return fileStream;
+	}
+});
+
+tar.extract('./my-directory', {
+	mapStream: (fileStream, header) => {
+		if (path.extname(header.name) === '.js') {
+			return fileStream;
+		}
+		return fileStream;
+	}
+});
+
+/*
+ * The corresponding modes
+ */
+tar.extract('./my-directory', {
+	dmode: parseInt("555", 8),
+	fmode: parseInt("444", 8),
+	readable: true,
+	writable: true,
+});
+
+/*
+ * The other options
+ */
+tar.pack('./my-directory', {
+	strict: false,
+	dereference: true,
+});
diff --git a/types/tar-fs/tsconfig.json b/types/tar-fs/tsconfig.json
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+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "lib": [
+            "es6"
+        ],
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": false,
+        "strictFunctionTypes": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "typeRoots": [
+            "../"
+        ],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true,
+        "esModuleInterop": true
+    },
+    "files": [
+        "index.d.ts",
+        "tar-fs-tests.ts"
+    ]
+}
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diff --git a/types/tar-fs/tslint.json b/types/tar-fs/tslint.json
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+{
+    "extends": "dtslint/dt.json"
+}
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