diff --git a/pkgs/shells/bash-static/builder.sh b/pkgs/shells/bash-static/builder.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ee482ced23bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/shells/bash-static/builder.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+source $stdenv/setup
+genericBuild
+cd $out/bin
+strip $out/bin/bash
+ln -s bash sh
diff --git a/pkgs/shells/bash-static/default.nix b/pkgs/shells/bash-static/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0c71f0589633
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/shells/bash-static/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "bash-3.0";
+  builder = ./builder.sh;
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/tarballs/bash-3.0.tar.gz;
+    md5 = "26c4d642e29b3533d8d754995bc277b3";
+  };
+  configureFlags = "--enable-static-link --without-bash-malloc";
+}