Good Perl tutorials/books...

...to begin. because I'm bored to write C code to do little tasks on my system.

I lucked into the entire Perl Reference Library box set from O'Reilly. Unfortunately, it is no longer available.

That said, I try to avoid perl as much as possible. I do my scripting in bash or Python as I like to be able to read it two years later and know what the hell it does.