I have started testrpc with the following command (which should give the account a balance of 1000):
testrpc --account="0x0116af719d217c12310c72c27a13509f192588735ae329f7c4cfef0e1518955e,1000"
Testrpc then starts up as expected:
EthereumJS TestRPC v3.9.2
Available Accounts
(0) 0x7a9a73cf766ec8340e41b0755691b0503947d982
Private Keys
(0) 0116af719d217c12310c72c27a13509f192588735ae329f7c4cfef0e1518955e
Listening on localhost:8545
Then I want to write a command to query the balance of this account. However, if I write something like eth.getBalance("0x7a9a73cf766ec8340e41b0755691b0503947d982")
(which is what works when connected to a private blockchain with geth, for example) or anything else in the same command prompt window nothing happens - it just goes to a new line.