You can use the textutil command to pull metadata information from Office documents. Here, we’ll use the -info option to do so: textutil -info hello.docx The output would be as follows: It might display: Type: Word format Size: 44068 bytes Length: 4234 characters Title: Author: Charles Edge Last Editor: Charles Edge Subject: Keywords: Created: 2015-06-28 08:21:00 -0900 Last Modified: 2015-06-28 10:02:00 -1200 Contents: Hello world