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Example of how to do a custom fact parsing output from a perl script that outputs YAML. This ruby file must be distributed via a module as a custom fact and should be saved in the modules lib/facter directory. The facter command can then be used to inspect the resulting structure, eg facter -p myfact.testdata.data1

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	require 'yaml'

	Facter.add(:myfact) do
	setcode do
	YAML.load(Facter::Core::Execution.exec("/usr/local/bin/mycoolscript.pl"))
	end
	end

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GeoffWilliams commented Jun 10, 2016

Use Facter::Core::Execution instead of %x{} to have more control over executions and errors

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