Compare current time to timestamp on a file

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

I'm trying to compare 2 dates between current time and the timestamp on a file.
The date format is mmdd
Both return Apr 1 but when using if statement

line 11: Apr 1: command not found error is returned

#!/bin/sh

log="DateLog"

Current_Date=`date +%b%e`
Filepmdate=`ls -l /file.txt | awk '{print $6,$7}'`

printf "$Current_Date \n"
printf "$Filepmdate \n"

if ( "$Current_Date" = "$Filepmdate" ) ; then
	echo "Dates are the same" > /$log
 	exit 0
else
	echo "Dates are Not the same" > /$log
	exit 0
fi

any ideas ?

---------- Post updated at 11:26 AM ---------- Previous update was at 11:22 AM ----------

ok saw my error should used square brackets [] instead of ()

log="DateLog"

Current_Date=`date +%b%e`
Filepmdate=`ls -l /message.txt | awk '{print $6,$7}'`

printf "$Current_Date \n"
printf "$Filepmdate \n"

if [ "$Current_Date" = "$Filepmdate" ] ; then
	echo "Dates are the same" > /$log
 	exit 0
else
	echo "Dates are Not the same" > /$log
	exit 0
fi
2

look at 'man date' if your date supports the -r option (retrieve from file).
The syntax would be very simple:

log="DateLog"
DATEC="$(date +%b%e)"
DATEF="$(date -r /message.txt +%b%e)"
echo "Current date : $DATEC"
echo "File date    : $DATEF"
if [ "$DATEC" = "$DATEF" ]
then    echo "Dates are the same" > /$log
else     echo "Dates are Not the same" > /$log
fi
exit 0