[MC-55943] "/execute as [X entities] run tell [recipient] [message]" makes [recipient] tell themselves [message] X times

When you run the command
/execute as @e[limit=3,sort=random] run tell @p Meow

3 random entities will meow at you, as expected… and you will also meow at yourself 3 times.

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kumasasa 2014-05-27T22:39:22Z

Where do you see the bug ?

ZuzuTyp 2014-05-28T05:03:08Z

I saw it in the chat I'll post an Image...
As you can see on the Image,
The Pig whispers to me, and I whisper to myself.
On a Server with 2 or more Players every Player whispers to hisself.
the only command I used is in the chat.

kumasasa 2014-05-28T06:11:07Z

You mean, a player cannot whisper to himself it issuing /tell @p Test in the chat ?

ZuzuTyp 2014-05-28T14:50:59Z

No...
I try to explain it again:
If you execute the /tell command with an entity (/execute @e[type=Pig] ~ ~ ~ /tell @p ...)
not only the entity whispers to you, you also whisper to yourself (e.g.:
"Pig whispers to you..."
and "You whisper to Zuzu_Typ ..."
what I mean is:
the specified player is the Pig (@e[type=Pig]) and NOT me.
so I shouldn't be whispering to myself.

StevenNL2000 2014-05-28T16:22:49Z

My explanation:

if there is 1 pig in the world, and you do
/execute @e[type=Pig] ~ ~ ~ tell @p hi
the pig should whisper "hi" to you. it does that, but you also whisper to yourself, but that shouldn't happen because you only specified the pig with [type=Pig], and not yourself. Also strange: you seem to be sending a whisper to yourself, but you don't get the message that (your name) whispers to you: hi

8 more comments

Anon Ymus 2014-05-31T01:11:07Z

Confirmed.

marcono1234 2014-05-31T17:36:49Z

Confirmed for 14w21b

Also I don't understand why

/tell @p hi

doesn't work, but

/execute @p ~ ~ ~ tell @p hi

work, because execute means that you really somehow execute the command

ZuzuTyp 2014-12-20T22:31:10Z

It is still in 1.8.2-pre1.
Same as before.

Qi-rui Chen 2015-07-07T00:58:00Z

I can confirm that this still happens in 1.8.7. It does not occur if the command is ran by a command block or from the console.

ZuzuTyp 2015-07-29T22:43:39Z

Still in 15w31a.

AgentM 2016-08-13T09:25:10Z

still an issue/confirmed for 16w32b

AgentM 2016-08-13T09:30:59Z

More details:
/execute @p ~ ~ ~ tell @p Test

When ran from chat, it duplicates the message:

NAME whispers to you: Test
You whisper to NAME: Test

When ran from command block:
```
NAME whispers to you: Test
```
and in the last output of the command block:
```
You whisper to NAME: Test
```

it produces the message "you whisper to" when a message is sent

it produces the message "whispers to you" when a message is incoming

therefore

/execute @p ~ ~ ~ tell @p Test

will return the message you sent (from you, the executor) to yourself. as well as the message that executes FROM the entity executed at. if that makes any sense.

user-f2760 2016-08-13T10:23:34Z

That's not the issue here, you execute at pigs to tell to you, and it states that for every pig, both you and the pig wisper to you.

What you described is MC-73048.

ZuzuTyp 2016-10-21T20:03:43Z

Still in 16w42a.

j_p_smith 2020-05-25T06:48:02Z

Confirmed in 1.15.2 and 20w21a. Updated command:

/execute as @e[type=!player,limit=1] run tell @p Test

Avoma 2020-12-01T19:18:18Z

Can confirm in 20w48a.

Avoma 2021-02-06T14:23:46Z

Can confirm in 21w05b.

mattp12 2023-01-27T02:42:36Z

Confirmed for 23w04a.

An entity whispers to me and I whisper to myself despite specifying !player.