diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/file/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/file/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f7ada98ab491
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/file/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl}:
+ 
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "file-4.13";
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/file-4.13.tar.gz;
+    md5 = "2bfc0f878ee22e50441b68df2ccbb984";
+  };
+}