How can I tell if a file is on a remote filesystem with Perl?

Question

Is there a quick-and-dirty way to tell programmatically, in shell script or in Perl, whether a path is located on a remote filesystem (nfs or the like) or a local one? Or is the

Answer 1

I have tested the following on solaris7,8,9 & 10 and it seems to be reliable

/bin/df -g  | tail -2 | head -1 | awk '{print $1}'

Should give you have the fs type rather than trying to match for a "host:path" in your mount point.