Reddit reviews Perl for System Administration: Managing multi-platform environments with Perl
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Don't. Learn Python. Someone had to say it. :)
For the question/scenario the OP posted and the replies he's given in the thread, C# is a laughably bad solution. Linux sysadmin tasks are better suited to scripting languages. Of those, Perl is still a fine choice (and better than PHP due to it's history of use as an admin tool).
Bash/Shell scripting works as well, but is rather limited if you're approaching it as a jump off point to learn programming in general.
If OP is already comfortable with basic scripting and programming concepts, I would recommend Perl for System Administration or a cookbook oriented writing.
Your only misstep with Perl is that it's easy to make an ugly mess by trying to be clever, and that it lacks an interactive shell that Python and Ruby have, which are amazingly useful in developing scripts.
If you can get your hands on http://www.amazon.com/dp/059600639X (or its first edition, http://www.amazon.com/dp/1565926099 ), it provides quite a number of examples where you could use Perl in a Windows environment.