/kill command not working in 1.9 with entitys with a name too long [duplicate]

Question

So basically, What i am trying to do is kill an armor stand who's name is "Wood Age - Farming". I am in 1.9

I have spawned him in with this command

/summon ArmorStand ~ ~ ~ {CustomName:Wood Age - Farming,CustomNameVisible:1}

and i Have tried killing it with this one

/kill @e[name=Wood Age - Farming]

but it gives me this error

The entity UUID provided is in an invalid format.

Any ideas why?

Answer 1

Target selectors do not support using spaces. You will either have to rename the armor stand to exclude spaces, assign it score/"tag" based on its name, or just assign it tags directly via /summon since you're using 1.9 anyway:

/summon ArmorStand ~ ~ ~ {CustomName:"Wood Age - Farming",CustomNameVisible:1,Tags:["WoodAgeFarming"]}

The /kill command becomes:

/kill @e[type=ArmorStand,tag=WoodAgeFarming]

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Otherwise, to assign a tag based on a pre-existing target's name:

/scoreboard players tag @e[type=ArmorStand,tag=!WoodAgeFarming] add WoodAgeFarming {CustomName:"Wood Age - Farming"}
/kill @e[type=ArmorStand,tag=WoodAgeFarming]

Or a score:

/scoreboard players set @e[type=ArmorStand] OBJECTIVE 1 {CustomName:"Wood Age - Farming"}
/kill @e[type=ArmorStand,score_OBJECTIVE_min=1]