UID, GID, and all that

[Peter King]

Here's a question I should know the answer to but I'm too jet-lagged to think
of it. I'm rebuilding a system, and I've set up a new boot disk, which involved
creating a new everyday user (call him "joe"). I've mounted the old hard disk
with lots of stuff on it that belonged to joe on the old failed system. But now
while the files are identified as owned by joe as the user, the group id is not
"joe" or "user" but "1002" (no such group). I suppose I could run a massive 
find-and-chgrp command, but I can't be the first person to face this problem,
and there must be a simple solution, which I just can't think of right now.
Anyone care to tell me the simple and obvious one-line solution? Even two lines
would do. Thanks.

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