how to get mysql command line client not to print blob fields in select *

Exploring some tables which have blob fields. How could I do a select * with the command line client and have it surpress the printing (or truncate to a standard field width) the blob fields rather than scrolling a bunch of binary junk on the screen? This is with mysql 5.1 client. Just want to do a select * and not list all of the non-blob fields individually, for development.