---
name: "fab-cewl"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "cewl"
version: "6.2.1-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/fab-cewl"
---

# fab-cewl(1)

extract metadata from files

## NAME

**fab-cewl** - extract metadata from files

## SYNOPSIS

```
fab-cewl [OPTION] ... FILENAME(S)
```

## DESCRIPTION

**FAB (Files Already Bagged, provided as fab-cewl command in Debian) extracts** **the content of the author/creator fields, from metadata of the some files,** **to create lists of possible usernames. These usernames can be used association** **with the password list generated by [cewl(1)](/cewl/1.md). FAB uses the same metadata extraction** **techniques that CeWL.**

**Currently, FAB process Office pre 2007, Office 2007 and PDF formats.**

## OPTIONS

- **-h, --help**

  **Show this help.**

- **-v**

  **Verbose.**

- **FILENAMES(*S*)**

  **The file or list of files to check.**

## SEE ALSO

**[cewl(1)](/cewl/1.md)**

## AUTHOR

**The CeWL was written by Robin Wood \<robin@digi.ninja\>.**

**This manual page was written by Joao Eriberto Mota Filho \<eriberto@debian.org\>** **for the Debian project (but may be used by others).**