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@a, @p or @r in player and console-sent commands

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start by locating the command parsing and execution entry points for player- and console-sent commands, then trace how command arguments are resolved. Compare the current behavior with the requested @a, @p, and @r selectors; done means those selectors work for the relevant commands without requiring command blocks.

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Description

CMDBOOK-2312 - Reported by killjoy1221

This works in vanilla, but bukkit has yet to implement it. You could do "/give @a fish" to give everyone some fish. You could also do "/slay @r" to kill a random player.

Currently, this is impossible without using commandblocks.

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Java
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