OK, found it in the Ganache Command Line guide:
-e
or --defaultBalanceEther
: Amount of ether to assign each test account. Default is 100.
Apparently, ganache-cli --help
doesn't quite tell you everything that you need to know...
UPDATE:
The value set via the --defaultBalanceEther
parameter doesn't seem to have any impact on the amount of ether assigned to each test account (as suggested in the docs). I was, however, able to achieve my purpose by explicitly "declaring" an account with a large enough balance. For example:
ganache-cli --account="0x0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef,1000000000000000000000000000000000000000"
The first part of the account
parameter value is the private key of the account, which must be given as a 64-character hexadecimal string (i.e., 0x
followed by 64 hexadecimal-base characters).
The second part of the account
parameter value is the balance, which can be provided in either decimal or hexadecimal format.