Notes:
glastlnx07 /nfs/farm/g/glast/u26/MC-tasks/obssim-ST-v7r6p1/output > /usr/bin/time grep cob0343 */logFile.txt
0.16user 0.13system 0:00.73elapsed 39%CPU
Note This does not scale to large number of directories, since */logFile.txt is expanded by the shell and eventually the expanded line becomes too long.
glastlnx07 /nfs/farm/g/glast/u26/MC-tasks/obssim-ST-v7r6p1/output > /usr/bin/time find */logFile.txt -exec grep cob0343 {} \;
0.44user 1.95system 0:03.41elapsed 69%CPU
Note This command scale much better. Note that grep is invoked 1500 times in this case, but that does not seem to introduce a huge overhead.