Good Perl tutorials/books...

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

>>7
That said, I try to avoid perl as much as possible. I do my scripting in bash
Choosing Python over Perl is one thing. But choosing Bash over Perl? You've got issues, man.

>8
Python now has an edge over Perl for performance. For most things that's probably enough.