Intersects without clipping input vector layer

Question

I have two layers, one with a fishnet grid of a country, and then the borders of the country. I would like to get a shapefile with all the features of this grid that intersect with the borders of the country. Using intersect or clip, they all cut the initial grid to the borders.

So I am getting:

But my goal is to get this:

Answer 1

Use Select by Expression on the grid layer to select grid features that intersect the country.

intersects( $geometry, geometry( get_feature( 'countrylayer', 'namefield', 'countryname')))

Customize the selection expression for your data as follows:

• countrylayer -> substitute the name of the country layer
• namefield -> substitute the name of the field that contains country names
• countryname -> substitute the name of your country

Then save the selection by right clicking on the grid layer name in the layer panel > save as... > save only selected features.