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Leverage libreoffice to do this job.

Might have to install libreoffice - on macos using brew one way to do this is:

brew install  libreoffice-language-pack --cask libreoffice`

Key idea: use soffice --headless

/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice --headless --convert-to docx FILE.DOC

Multiple files with --outdir ~/Desktop/output and giving a list of files e.g. *.DOC

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Found details in this online article

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