diff --git a/doc/api/child_process.md b/doc/api/child_process.md
index e71bf89f9133bd..a2e6bb5365cfb3 100644
--- a/doc/api/child_process.md
+++ b/doc/api/child_process.md
@@ -180,18 +180,6 @@ exec('echo "The \\$HOME variable is $HOME"');
 **Never pass unsanitized user input to this function. Any input containing shell
 metacharacters may be used to trigger arbitrary command execution.**
 
-```js
-const { exec } = require('child_process');
-exec('cat *.js bad_file | wc -l', (error, stdout, stderr) => {
-  if (error) {
-    console.error(`exec error: ${error}`);
-    return;
-  }
-  console.log(`stdout: ${stdout}`);
-  console.log(`stderr: ${stderr}`);
-});
-```
-
 If a `callback` function is provided, it is called with the arguments
 `(error, stdout, stderr)`. On success, `error` will be `null`. On error,
 `error` will be an instance of [`Error`][]. The `error.code` property will be
@@ -206,6 +194,18 @@ can be used to specify the character encoding used to decode the stdout and
 stderr output. If `encoding` is `'buffer'`, or an unrecognized character
 encoding, `Buffer` objects will be passed to the callback instead.
 
+```js
+const { exec } = require('child_process');
+exec('cat *.js missing_file | wc -l', (error, stdout, stderr) => {
+  if (error) {
+    console.error(`exec error: ${error}`);
+    return;
+  }
+  console.log(`stdout: ${stdout}`);
+  console.log(`stderr: ${stderr}`);
+});
+```
+
 If `timeout` is greater than `0`, the parent will send the signal
 identified by the `killSignal` property (the default is `'SIGTERM'`) if the
 child runs longer than `timeout` milliseconds.