@PanGalactic - thanks for the reply
well I found a using c in UNIX tut. What I was getting at was can i use C++ instead of C to create my own shell and do automations, etc. I was just being lazy and trying to avoid learning C and skipping over to C++ since i'm taking OOP with C++ class right now.
ummm i wouldnt say that... theres plenty of reasons to automate with c++. also, there is python, perl, ruby, etc. bash is not the only nor the best resource