what's the right pattern to match my command

Question

OS: AIX 7.1
I am working on a shell script which let user input some command and execute it, one of the commands is in this form:

compile appname

the appname only can be one of [ccms|asws], what's the right pattern to match it in case statement ?

here is my shell script:

while true
do
 read cmd
 case $cmd in
 "compile(\s)(ccms)|(asws)") compile
  ;;
 *) break
  ;;
 esac
done

compile(){
 ...
}

Answer 1

Let the read command to the splitting.

read cmd arguments
case $cmd in
  compile)
    …
    ;;
esac

Answer 2

This should work in any POSIX-compliant shell:

case $cmd in
    "compile ccms"|"compile asws") compile
    ;;
    *) break
    ;;
esac