Create folders in $HOME from txt file - bash

Question

I have a file structure like
folder/subfolder1/folders.txt,docker-compose.yml
folder/subfolder2/folders.txt,docker-compose.yml
These text files contain folders to be created in my $HOME, like appdata/subfolder1,subfolder2
I’m trying to create a script that does the following;
It should go over all the files in folder/* and watch for .txt files in subfolders. If there is no text file in subfolder1 I want it to echo “no txt file in subfolder1” but if there is a txt file in subfolder1 it should read it line by line and create the folders in my $HOME. It should also do the same for subfolder2 and so on.
It should do nothing with the .yml files in the directories.
I think it can be accomplished with something like
#!/bin/env bash
folder=“folder/*/*”
for f in $folder do
if [ $f = *.txt ] then xargs mkdir -p
else echo “no txt files in folder..”
fi
done
I think there could be a $(dirname $f) involved for echoing “no txt files in subfolder..”
I know I’m probably making a lot of mistakes but that’s why I came here, maybe some of you would like to help.
The reason for this script is I want to automate docker stack deploy for my docker swarm but unlike a regular docker-compose up swarm doesn’t create folders if they don’t exist.
Please just ask if I need to explain more about what it should and shouldn’t do.
EDIT:
I came up with some scripts but now I’m trying to combine the two,
cokehotdog#testvm:~$ for file in $files; do [[ $file == *.txt ]] && echo "$(basename $file) in $(basename $(dirname $file)) is a txt file" || echo "$(basename $file) in $(basename $(dirname $file)) is not a txt file"; done
test.txt in app1 is a txt file
test1.yml in app1 is not a txt file
test2.txt in app2 is a txt file
test2.yml in app2 is not a txt file
This should be combined with this
cokehotdog#testvm:~$ for file in $files; do [[ $file == *.txt ]] && cat $file | xargs mkdir -p -- && while read -r line; do echo "$line created";done < $file ; done
/home/cokehotdog/appdata/app1 created
/home/cokehotdog/appdata/app2 created
But when I try something like this I get an error and I’m stuck now
cokehotdog#testvm:~$ for file in $files; do [[ $file == *.txt ]] && cat $file | xargs mkdir -p -- && while read -r line; do echo "$line created";done < $file || echo "$(basename $file) in $(basename $(dirname $file)) is not a txt file"; done
cat: 'test/*/*.txt': No such file or directory
mkdir: missing operand
Try 'mkdir --help' for more information.

Answer 1

Try:
find folder -type f -name 'folders.txt' |
while IFS= read -r l; do
(
cd "$(dirname "$l")"
xargs -d '\n' -t echo mkdir -p < "$l"
)
done