Read the man pages. Start with man perl, then read the following: perlintro, perlreftut, perldsc, perlretut, perlboot, perltoot. This should get you started t

Read the man pages. Start with man perl, then read the following: perlintro, perlreftut, perldsc, perlretut, perlboot, perltoot. This should get you started then read all the others, get the Camel book which is the defacto reference. And write as much code as you can (which is really true of learning any language.) Dropping into #perl on EFNet (now on freenode) used to be helpful, but it doesn't look like it anymore.