compare file timestamp in bash

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Published on 2010-05-06T10:53:32Z Indexed on 2010/05/06 10:58 UTC
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How do I compare the timestamp of two files?

I tried this but it doesn't work:

file1time=`stat -c %Y fil1.txt`
file2time=`stat -c %Y file2.txt`
if[$file1time -gt $file2time];
then
 doSomething
fi

Thanks

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