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Since the general format for txt facts is like this:

fact_name=fact_value 

There is some ambiguity around what will happen if you want an ‘=’ in your fact value. It seems that this is not dealt with in the most desirable away. If you have an external fact defined as:

 
test_fact=a=a 

Then when you run Facter, it will return:

 
$ facter
test_fact=a => a

This is probably not the behavior that we’re looking for, as there is more likely to be a case where you may want an ‘=’ in your fact value then in your fact name. This should just be a quick fix in the txt parser.