diff --git a/doc/api/errors.md b/doc/api/errors.md
index 06ca45c16c0908..49dbcb224c7d7f 100644
--- a/doc/api/errors.md
+++ b/doc/api/errors.md
@@ -1231,12 +1231,6 @@ provided.
 Encoding provided to `TextDecoder()` API was not one of the
 [WHATWG Supported Encodings][].
 
-<a id="ERR_EVAL_ESM_CANNOT_PRINT"></a>
-
-### `ERR_EVAL_ESM_CANNOT_PRINT`
-
-`--print` cannot be used with ESM input.
-
 <a id="ERR_EVENT_RECURSION"></a>
 
 ### `ERR_EVENT_RECURSION`
@@ -3696,6 +3690,17 @@ removed: v15.0.0
 
 The native call from `process.cpuUsage` could not be processed.
 
+<a id="ERR_EVAL_ESM_CANNOT_PRINT"></a>
+
+### `ERR_EVAL_ESM_CANNOT_PRINT`
+
+<!--
+added: v14.3.0
+removed: REPLACEME
+-->
+
+`--print` cannot be used with ESM input.
+
 [ES Module]: esm.md
 [ICU]: intl.md#internationalization-support
 [JSON Web Key Elliptic Curve Registry]: https://www.iana.org/assignments/jose/jose.xhtml#web-key-elliptic-curve
diff --git a/lib/internal/errors.js b/lib/internal/errors.js
index ef4295f9eaaaef..910ac072d36c86 100644
--- a/lib/internal/errors.js
+++ b/lib/internal/errors.js
@@ -1194,7 +1194,6 @@ E('ERR_ENCODING_INVALID_ENCODED_DATA', function(encoding, ret) {
 }, TypeError);
 E('ERR_ENCODING_NOT_SUPPORTED', 'The "%s" encoding is not supported',
   RangeError);
-E('ERR_EVAL_ESM_CANNOT_PRINT', '--print cannot be used with ESM input', Error);
 E('ERR_EVENT_RECURSION', 'The event "%s" is already being dispatched', Error);
 E('ERR_FALSY_VALUE_REJECTION', function(reason) {
   this.reason = reason;
diff --git a/lib/internal/process/execution.js b/lib/internal/process/execution.js
index e69add7394e60f..7ad8595a818bd9 100644
--- a/lib/internal/process/execution.js
+++ b/lib/internal/process/execution.js
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ const {
   codes: {
     ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE,
     ERR_UNCAUGHT_EXCEPTION_CAPTURE_ALREADY_SET,
-    ERR_EVAL_ESM_CANNOT_PRINT,
   },
 } = require('internal/errors');
 const { pathToFileURL } = require('internal/url');
@@ -61,7 +60,7 @@ function getEvalModuleUrl() {
  */
 function evalModuleEntryPoint(source, print) {
   if (print) {
-    throw new ERR_EVAL_ESM_CANNOT_PRINT();
+    source = `console.log((${source}))`;
   }
   RegExpPrototypeExec(/^/, ''); // Necessary to reset RegExp statics before user code runs.
   return require('internal/modules/run_main').runEntryPointWithESMLoader(
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-cli-eval.js b/test/parallel/test-cli-eval.js
index b993dd474149e9..f154b596ad95cd 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-cli-eval.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-cli-eval.js
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ const assert = require('assert');
 const child = require('child_process');
 const path = require('path');
 const fixtures = require('../common/fixtures');
+const { spawnSyncAndAssert } = require('../common/child_process');
 const nodejs = `"${process.execPath}"`;
 
 if (process.argv.length > 2) {
@@ -224,30 +225,31 @@ child.exec(`${nodejs} --use-strict -p process.execArgv`,
 
 
 // Assert that "42\n" is written to stdout on module eval.
-const execOptions = '--input-type module';
-child.exec(
-  `${nodejs} ${execOptions} --eval "console.log(42)"`,
-  common.mustSucceed((stdout) => {
-    assert.strictEqual(stdout, '42\n');
-  }));
+const execOptions = '--input-type=module';
+spawnSyncAndAssert(process.execPath, [execOptions, '--eval', 'console.log(42)'], {
+  stdout: '42\n',
+  stderr: '',
+});
 
 // Assert that "42\n" is written to stdout with print option.
-child.exec(
-  `${nodejs} ${execOptions} --print --eval "42"`,
-  common.mustCall((err, stdout, stderr) => {
-    assert.ok(err);
-    assert.strictEqual(stdout, '');
-    assert.ok(stderr.includes('--print cannot be used with ESM input'));
-  }));
+spawnSyncAndAssert(process.execPath, [execOptions, '--print', '--eval', 42], {
+  stdout: '42\n',
+  stderr: '',
+});
 
 // Assert that error is written to stderr on invalid input.
-child.exec(
-  `${nodejs} ${execOptions} --eval "!!!!"`,
-  common.mustCall((err, stdout, stderr) => {
-    assert.ok(err);
-    assert.strictEqual(stdout, '');
-    assert.ok(stderr.indexOf('SyntaxError: Unexpected end of input') > 0);
-  }));
+spawnSyncAndAssert(process.execPath, [execOptions, '--print', '--eval', '!!!!'], {
+  status: 1,
+  stdout: '',
+  stderr: /SyntaxError: Unexpected token '\)'\n/,
+});
+
+// Assert that error is written to stderr on unsupported input.
+spawnSyncAndAssert(process.execPath, [execOptions, '-p', 'import "node:os"'], {
+  status: 1,
+  stdout: '',
+  stderr: /SyntaxError: Unexpected string\n/,
+});
 
 // Assert that require is undefined in ESM support
 child.exec(