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I'll PM you the story.

Perl really is great. Once you get familiar with the basics you can do just about anything an admin would want to do

Do you know any good resources for learning Perl?

Learning Perl, Fourth Edition by Randal L. Schwartz is a good book that you can pick up on Amazon for $23.37. It got some really good reviews. I've picked it up a few times at the library and browsed through it.

I also found Perl Cookbook, Second Edition by Tom Christiansen which got even better reviews. I found these cookbook books really get down to the details. This one is about $32.97

ZiPPy

Got the Schwartz book, it's good. There are also quite a few good tutorials out on the net which are free and available via Google