diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9e59d91..6ffff31 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -162,6 +162,9 @@ All API calls can be called from the command line. The command will convert doma
 $ cli4 [-h|--help] [-v|--verbose] [-q|--quiet] [--get|--patch|--post|-put|--delete] [item=value ...] /command...
 ```
 
+For API calls that need a set of date or parameters passed there is a item=value format.
+If you want a numeric value passed, then _**_ can be used to force the value to be treated as a numeric value.
+
 The output from the CLI command is in json format (and human readable).
 
 ### Simple CLI examples
diff --git a/cli4/cli4.py b/cli4/cli4.py
index 8607076..3c0280d 100644
--- a/cli4/cli4.py
+++ b/cli4/cli4.py
@@ -124,13 +124,13 @@ def cli4(args):
 	# next grab the params. These are in the form of tag=value
 	params = {}
 	while len(args) > 0 and '=' in args[0]:
-		tag, value = args.pop(0).split('=')
+		tag, value = args.pop(0).split('=', 1)
 		if value == 'true':
 			value = True
 		elif value == 'false':
 			value = False
-		elif digits_only.match(value):
-			value = int(value)
+		elif value[0] is '=' and digits_only.match(value[1:]):
+			value = int(value[1:])
 		elif value[0] is '[' and value[-1] is ']':
 			value = value[1:-1].split(',')
 		params[tag] = value