Read-Host always ends in a colon

Question

Whenever I do a Read-Host the prompt always ends in : is there anyway to change this? is it -Prompt Flag?

Answer 1

As mentioned in the comments, there's no way to control how the executing host application presents the prompt when passing a Prompt message parameter argument.

What you can do instead, is call $Host.UI.ReadLine() directly from your script and prepend a message yourself:

Write-Host "No colons here>" -NoNewLine
$UserInput = $Host.UI.ReadLine()

Here's an example of what that looks like in powershell.exe: