Solved. I did the following: ./runme all > tempfile As I could not see the messages i pressed enter around fifty times to not apply any patch. Then: grep ^Testing tempfile Show me a list with the lines started by Testing, Example: Testing ipp2p... Not Applied Testing rpc... Not Applied Testing string... Applied That was what i need. Runme help shows the following option: -- check check mode, automaticaly checks if patches are alreay applied. produces a logfile: rune.out-check (Note 2 tipos: alreay and rune.out-check) However it just does nothing, I tried to run several times and could not find the runme.out-check file.